BANGALORE: Unlike every year, city streets and public places were not a war field of garbage, post the two-day festival. Measures taken by the civic body authorities to construct immersion tanks around Ulsoor Lake, Yediyur Lake and Sankey Tank, has contributed to lessen the pollution during the festival.Despite the huge crowd lined up for Ganesha idol immersion at these tanks since Thursday evening, the police as well as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) employees, ensured that people leave the plastic packets and other flowers outside.“As per the orders issued to us, we are stopping the people at the entrance and checking them. Only immersion of idols was allowed inside the gate” said a police personnel at Yediyur Lake entrance.All sort of plastic content, other waste items were collected at the entrance and dumped in the BBMP vehicles stationed around the lake area. A separate container was also kept where flowers and other pooja material could be disposed off. Similar order prevailed at the idol immersion tank at Ulsoor Lake.People with Ganesha idols were allowed to immerse only the idols.Apart from these tanks, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) along with the BBMP had organised for 163 mobile immersion tanks in and around Bangalore.Speaking to Express, Nanda Kumar S, senior environmental officer, KSPCB, said, “The response this year was much better compared to the previous year.In addition to this, if the same order remains for the entire week, the clean-up of these tanks is expected to be much easier.” Meanwhile, the regional officers from the KSPCB are also monitoring the water quality of these lakes.He said “The regional officers have taken water samples on August 25 from Sankey Tank, Ulsoor Lake, Yediyur Lake and Lalbagh Lake in order to check for the impact of toxic paints used in the idols. For comparison, on Friday, water samples were again taken from the same lakes. On September 7, once again the samples will be taken and analysis will be made.”
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