Archive · 8 Sep 2025
Bhopal Cleans Ghats After Idol Immersion, Removing 80 Tons of Waste
After a big festival where people put statues of a god into water, the city of Bhopal cleaned up.
They picked up over 80 tons of trash, like flowers and decorations, left behind.
The city used special places and ponds for people to put their statues in the water.
Workers took the trash to be sorted, and they will turn the flowers into incense sticks and recycle the cloth.
The mayor also visited to make sure everything was clean.
Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) collected over 80 tonnes of waste after the Ganesh idol immersion.
Waste included 50 tonnes of worship materials like flowers and garlands.
Over 30,000 idols were immersed across the city.
Flowers and garlands will be used to make incense sticks.
Mayor inspected the cleanliness drive at various ghats.
- Who
- Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC)
- What
- Collected over 80 tonnes of waste after Ganesh idol immersion
- When
- A day after the Ganesh idol immersion, continuing from Saturday afternoon until early Sunday morning
- Where
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, at ghats and temporary ponds
- Why
- To clean up immersion sites after the Ganesh idol immersion
- Event
- Ganesh Idol Immersion
- Waste Collected
- Over 80 tonnes
- Worship Material Collected
- 50 tonnes
- Idols Immersed
- Over 30,000
- Ghats Used
- 8 traditional, 33 temporary ponds
- Waste Recycling
- Flowers to incense sticks, cloth recycling
