Volunteers of ‘Mana Ooru – Mana Gudi – Mana Bhadyatha’ cleaned the Chinna Cheruvu in Nandyal town in which more than 500 Ganesh idols of various sizes and shapes have been immersed on the third and fifth day of Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
Idols installed at small and big pandals in Nandyal and nearby villages are immersed in the Chinna Cheruvu near the Srisailam-Mahanandi Y Junction Road every year. For the first time, the volunteers of ‘Mana Ooru – Mana Gudi – Mana Bhadyatha’ organisation had decided to clean garbage that gets accumulated after the immersion of the idols. This is for the first time that the organisation, which has been cleaning temples, temple ponds and ancient step wells, had stepped into clearing debris from a tank used for immersion of idols.
The organisation founder and convenor of the Indian National Trust for Arts Culture and Heritage (INTACH) Nandyal district unit M. V. Sivakumar Reddy said they have taken up cleaning of the tank on the third and fifth day of the festival when idols get immersed. On the third day, a few idols have been immersed while on Sunday, the fifth day, more than 430 idols have been immersed, he said.
More than 65 volunteers have started cleaning of the tank from Sunday midnight after the immersion of idols was completed. “Majority of the waste generated was plastic. It consisted of sachets of vermillion and turmeric, covers used for distribution of prasadam and others apart from flower garlands,” Mr. Sivakumar Reddy said.
The volunteers collected nearly one-and-half truckloads of garbage from the tank.
Published – September 01, 2025 03:02 pm IST
