No public immersion for Ganpatis in Mumbai's containment zones: BMC

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said that Ganesh mandals located in COVID-19 containment zones in the city will have to conduct idol immersions inside their own pandals.

The BMC guideline issued yesterday for the upcoming mega festival stated the same rule will apply for idols



installed by individual devotees if their homes lie in a containment zones. The number of containment zones in Mumbai currently stands at 622 and the total number of positive coronavirus cases in these zones is 30,781. While, as many as 5,960 buildings remain sealed in the city.