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Puja residue disposal raises environmental concern
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE anxious about polythene bags filled with ?puja samagri? floating in the Gomti after the ?puja season? got over. Environmentalists, as well as temple pujaris, are educating people and sensitising them on the issue.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE anxious about polythene bags filled with ‘puja samagri’ floating in the Gomti after the ‘puja season’ got over.
Environmentalists, as well as temple pujaris, are educating people and sensitising them on the issue.
A number of temples have dug deep pits on their premises to encourage people to put all the used ‘puja samagri’ in those pits, which in the course of time turns into manure.
Shashidhar Malvi at the Hanuman Setu Mandir said it was best not to pollute the environment and be responsible citizens.
There are two large pits in the Hanuman Setu Mandir and one of them is operational at all times. Flowers and various other materials used during puja at the temple is finally thrown in the pits. When one pit is full it is covered and the other one is put to use. Meanwhile, the material in the first pit turns into manure. The manure is then provided free of cost to the people who want it.
Similarly, other temples that have enough space follow this practice whereas other temples think of alternative methods. Several organisations working for the upkeep of the environment deploy their activists at the banks of Gomti and on various bridges to make sure people don’t throw away the puja samagri along with packets in the river.
They make sure that just the samagri goes in the river and not the plastic packets.
Temple management, as well as environmentalists, have made an appeal to the people and asked them not to throw away dangerous and harmful materials in the water bodies to keep them clean.
