{"id":14495,"date":"2015-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/15\/ganapati-visarjan-more-than-50000-statues-immersed-in-mumbai\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:00:00","slug":"ganapati-visarjan-more-than-50000-statues-immersed-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/15\/ganapati-visarjan-more-than-50000-statues-immersed-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganapati Visarjan: More than 50,000 Statues Immersed in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/mumbai\/ganpati-visarjan-over-50000-ganesha-idols-immersed-in-mumbai\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 28, 2015 (Indian Express): A peaceful visarjan of Lord Ganesha statues marked the end to the ten-day long festival Monday as hundreds of thousands of devotees bid adieu to the elephant-headed Deity, including the famous Lalbaugcha Raja statue.The immersion process which started since early hours Sunday culminated this morning with over 50,000 statues being immersed amidst fanfare and tight security.<\/p>\n<p>According to Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) statement, till 7 AM Monday, a total 50,250 statues were immersed at the designated natural and artificial spots, including at major sites Girgaon Chowpatty, Juhu beach, Powai lake, Dadar, Madh jetty, Marve.<\/p>\n<p>An elaborate security arrangement was put in place for the large-scaled immersion by Civic administration, Mumbai Police, fire brigade, SRPF (State Reserve Police Force) and ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police). A senior police officer told PTI cranes, watchtowers, drones, coast guard&#8217;s helicopters and floodlights were installed at most of the major immersion spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 28, 2015 (Indian Express): A peaceful visarjan of Lord Ganesha statues marked the end to the,&#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-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495","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=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}