Overview
- The festival will culminate with large immersion processions on Friday, September 25, as mandals and civic bodies complete preparations for Anant Chaturdashi.
- Mumbai Police will deploy more than 24,000 personnel and specialised units to manage crowds and processions while Hyderabad police announced nearly 20,000 staff plus over 10,000 CCTV cameras and 24 drones for citywide monitoring.
- Traffic authorities in south, central and suburban Mumbai have published detailed road closures, one-way routes and no-parking zones and Pune and Pune Police have activated live-tracking and parking hubs to ease movement.
- Municipalities set up immersion infrastructure including 189 sites in Navi Mumbai with 156 artificial ponds, cranes, rafts and diver teams to handle large idols and enforce Bombay High Court guidance on idol size and noise limits.
- Organisers and the tourism department are directing darshan queue closures at major pandals, offering a Girgaon Chowpatty pavilion for foreign visitors, and stressing eco-friendly visarjan to reduce water pollution and crowd risks.