Source: www.punemirror.in
PUNE, INDIA, August 30, 2010: A 10 PM curfew on sound pollution prompted Mandar Pataskar to develop “Soundless Ganesha,” a pandal which uses FM transmitters to keep noise pollution at bay during Ganeshotsav.
The brainchild of Pataskar and Parag Bhide, a diploma student from MIT, the set-up for a noise-free Ganesh festival is quite simple to use. “People visit Ganesh pandals and they often fail to catch the dialogues in the display, simply because they are standing far away from the pandal. But now, all they need to do is to tune into the pandal’s frequency using their mobile phones and listen to every bit of the dialogues. It makes the Ganeshotsav more personal,” says Pataskar.
Both Pataskar and Bhide have been working on this model for the past two years. “Soundless Ganesha will be carried out on an experimental basis at our pandal this time,” says Bhide, because they still have to wait for a license from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.