{"id":13741,"date":"2014-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/28\/statue-makers-pay-a-price-for-going-green\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:00:00","slug":"statue-makers-pay-a-price-for-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/28\/statue-makers-pay-a-price-for-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue-Makers Pay a Price for Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/idolmakers-pay-a-price-for-going-green\/article6339030.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, August 23, 2014 (The Hindu): Every year, weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, the word &#8216;eco-friendly&#8217; garners more attention than the festival itself. Social organisations, NGOs and government bodies embark on campaigns vociferously advocating the use of eco-friendly Ganeshas. But, this trend of &#8216;going green&#8217; seems to have reversed in Bommala Colony, as statues makers there pay a hefty price for embracing environmentalism.<\/p>\n<p>The colony, situated on the outskirts of the temple city, is known for its eco-friendly Ganeshas and is frequented by people. Of late, the introduction of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols in the region has dampened the statue makers&#8217; spirit, as people have been opting for shiny statues instead of the eco-friendly ones. &#8220;Making statues from naturally available items is hard work (it takes more than six months) and requires huge godowns for storage. A drizzle can melt an entire statue within minutes. On the contrary, PoP statues can be made in a jiffy and can withstand the rigours of nature,&#8221; says statue maker Sabhari, hastening his work on a statue, apprehensive about the overcast conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Lamenting the indifference of officials, Mr. Sabhari maintained that all their pleas to ban PoP statues had fallen on deaf ears. &#8220;Over the years, we have approached several officials, but none of them took steps to resolve the issue. Their apathy sometimes makes us question ourselves &#8211; what is the use of being environment friendly,&#8221; he adds. According to him, a complete ban on the use of PoP statues, implemented in states like Tamil Nadu, will address the issue effectively.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, August 23, 2014 (The Hindu): Every year, weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, the word &#8216;eco-friendly&#8217; garners more attention than,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}