Lucknow: With Lucknow Municipal Corporation has not started cleaning the pollutants left behind in Gomti after soaking Ganesh Idols, a group of volunteers have taken assignments to choose idols in the river and eliminate the waste that accumulates along the bank.
The group made a decision after visiting Gomti Ghats where they found garbage scattered throughout the bank and stored in a puddle along the coastline, threatening the flora and river fauna.
A single artificial hole made previously was full of garbage.
The whole area is smelling foul odor.
The view of the Jhule Lal Vatika where the idols and puja items lie scattered after the situation, volunteers say, have been created because the LMC does not make an artificial pool or a hole for soaking idols this year, produces most worshipers who do rituals directly on the river, while some Using a dark-made hole made before.
Also, no one from the Civic body that came so far to clean the bank even two days after the conclusion of Ganesh Puja, they added a group, which consisted of 25 Swavaran members of Swavaran Andolan Lion (Spa), bought, bought.
Some nets and start fishing floats or drowning on the river.
They also carry equipment to collect waste and remove water hyacinth from the bank “in two days, we have taken around 1,000 small and medium idols of river water near Jhulelal Vatika and respectfully immersed their land.
Some small idols are placed around the tree on The complex of a temple located in the bank, “said Ranjeet Singh, team leader and former Corporator Mankameshwar ward where the area fell.
All team members arrived around 5 in the morning and devote four hours every day for noble purposes, he added.
“We will continue our campaign until the entire area is cleared and also asks LMC to make provisions for artificial holes for idol immersion during the Puja Durga next month,” Jeet Sharma said, member of the Spa.
The practice of immersion of idols in Lucknow began in 2019 about the direction of the High Court, which took a serious view of very high levels of pollution in the river in the state.
This practice was carried out successfully for two years, but this time LMC failed to obey the court order.