Overview

• Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has set up 139 artificial ponds and 28 mobile immersion tanks across eight zones, retaining 22 traditional sites with upgraded safety and sanitation.
• NMMC expects more than 17,000 idols to use artificial facilities after over 14,000 did so last year, and it has begun awareness drives urging clay idols and greener immersions.
• Thane Municipal Corporation has arranged 134 immersion locations—23 artificial lakes, 77 tank systems, 15 mobile units, 9 creek ghats and 10 idol acceptance centres—with overall capacity 1.5 times last year.
• TMC is enforcing the six-foot threshold for artificial immersions and has deployed a Green Immersion app to guide residents to nearby sites and mobile routes, alongside staff working in shifts with cranes and barges at key ghats.
• The state pollution board has relaunched its EcoBappa app listing 218 vendors for clay idols and civic artificial-pond locations, while Mumbai’s civic body plans 250-plus artificial ponds and has distributed more clay to artisans.