Overview

• City data show large volumes of immersions, including 59,407 idols in Mumbai on day two and 73,959 in Bengaluru on Thursday after a peak of about 2.19 lakh the previous evening.
• Mumbai expanded to 288 artificial ponds and Thane recorded higher artificial-pond use than last year, while Hyderabad listed 74 immersion ponds and multiple lakes for scheduled phases.
• Hyderabad’s GHMC mobilised 14,486 sanitation staff with 134 static cranes, 269 mobile cranes, nine boats, 16 DRF teams and 200 swimmers, alongside control rooms and post-immersion cleanup fleets.
• Civic bodies intensified waste management, with Thane collecting over 15 tonnes of Nirmalya for composting and Pune processing ritual waste and re-immersing collected idols under supervision.
• Implementation remains uneven as a Navi Mumbai citizens’ forum alleges poor enforcement of artificial-pond rules, and fishermen near Visakhapatnam object to beach immersions over marine and livelihood concerns.