City gears up for Ganesh Chaturthi, Students promote Eco-Friendly Idols
Udupi: The residents of Udupi are all set to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi. Since people from all parts of the country live in the Education and temple city Udupi, every festival is celebrated with great religious fervour and excitement.
Idols of Lord Ganesha are being prepared by local artistes, while devotees are busy creating space to put up the idols and prepare for prayers at their homes and public places.
“Ganesha’s knocking at our doors and we can’t be happier to welcome our favourite God. we are fully prepared to welcome him at our home and all decorations have been finalised,” Divya, a city based housewife, said.
At the same time to protect nature, many people have designed various varieties of Eco-friendly Ganesh idols with fruits, vegetables, leafy vegetables, clay and other material to display their creative skills.
Students of KPSK aided school Panjinadka near Mulki under the guidance of Venki Pailmari prepared a Ganesha Idol by using Waste box papers. A 4 ft high Ganesha idol was prepared by using waste box papers, 2 kg of fevicol and watercolour paint.
Lawrence Pinto a student of Laxmi Janardhana School Belman of Karkala Taluk prepared a Ganesha Idol within 15 minutes using regular vegetables such as cucumber, onion, tomatoes, chillies, leaves, etc.
Art teacher Venki Palimar said that we are encouraging students to protect nature from pollution by making Ganesh idols with available materials such as fruits, vegetables, etc. When toxic materials are used for making idols and such idols are immersed in water, they cause pollution. If Idols are made of clay, grass and wood they easily mix with water at the time of immersion and do not obstruct the flow of water in rivers, canals etc or cause pollution, he added.
On the eve of the Ganesh Chathurti festival, three art students of the Thrivarna Art Centre carved a sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh on the Malpe beach here on Wednesday. The three students, Prasad, Satish Kulal and Sandesh, created the sand sculpture under the guidance of their art teacher, Harish Saaga.
Below the sculpture of Lord Ganesha, they wrote the words “No Pollution” giving the message to the people to have an eco-friendly Ganesh Chathurthi festival.