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Following 11 day rituals, the Ganesh Immersion program has reached an end peacefully on Wednesday morning. With the authorities choosing to finish immersion of ganesh symbols inside 24 hours, the rest of the icons immersion will be finished by the night. The Hyderabad traffic police has imposed traffic curbs on the routes to be taken by the Ganesh immersion procession.
The main procession starts from Keshavagiri and passes through Aliabad, Nagulchinta, Charminar, Madina, Afzalgunj, MJ Market, Abids, Basheerbagh, Liberty, Tank Bund and NTR Marg .
Individuals from everywhere throughout the city and neighboring areas in huge numbers thronged Tank Bund to take an interest in Shobha Yatra and watch the parade of Ganesh symbols.
Police and GHMC officlas made expound arrangments in perspective of unjustifiable occurrences with around 24,000 police staff conveyed to give security to Ganesh immersion. Streets prompting NTR Marg and Tank Bund are pressed with devotees and trucks conveying Ganesh symbols.
This year, the Ganesh Visarjan as started with the immersion of Khairatabad Ganesh idol. Earlier, the Khairatabad Ganesh would be the last to conclude the immersion programme. The decision was made by the GHMC and Utsava Committee in order to clear the traffic congestion.
The first idol to be moved for immersion was the 57-feet Khairatabad idol at 7 a.m., which made its way slowly past the large number of devotees thronging the road in surrounding areas to catch the last glimpse of the idol before immersion.
The dozens of traffic diversions hasn’t held back people from converging at Tank Bund, the main venue for immersion. The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation is running special buses to bring in devotees to Tank Bund.