Summary:
All of a sudden, in the middle of our preparations, we get notices for noise pollution during last year's immersion procession. A committee should be formed in which representatives of Ganpati mandals, the state government, police and political leaders should participate with a model code of conduct created. Despite this, we received sound pollution notices, even though we had only dhol tasha pathaks and traditional music bands in our procession. Two months before the 125th Sarvajanik Ganesh Utsav comes to the city, the five Manache Ganpati Mandals in Pune, along with the prominent Dagadusheth Ganpati and Mandai Ganpati mandals , have received notices from the Pune police department for causing noise pollution during last year immersion procession. Shrikant Shete, president of Kasba Ganpati Mandal, the first Manache Ganpati of Pune, echoed, "There is no proper method or procedure to calculate the decibel of noise during the immersion processions..