Idol immersion and physico-chemical properties of South Gujarat rivers

Abstract

An idol of Lord Ganesh is worshipped with all rituals during this Ganesh-chaturthi. The time span of festival may vary from one and half day to five days, seven days or ten days also and idol are immersed in lotic or lantic water bodies. We have carried out study in South Gujarat where Ganesh idol immersion takes place in huge quantity with full of rejoice, but due to that water quality gets affected at alarming rate. For such pollution effects by idol immersion many researches have done work on the same in India 1-5. An analysis of water samples of the Brahmaputra conducted by the Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA) at Kacharighat on the post-immersion night of Durga Puja established the presence of heavy metals like lead, chromium, nickel, cadmium and zinc to a significant extent 2. In Maharastra Pollution Board declares guidelines and recommendations for idol

Festivals and deterioration of aquatic environment: A case study of Idol immersion in Tapi River, India

“…Bhattacharya et al (2014) reported the effect of idol immersion on hardness (116.33 mg/l pre immersion and 136.74 mg/l during the immersion) in Ganga river which was moderately similar findings of present investigation. Malik et al (2012) also reported high value (347 ppm) of total hardness during immersion period in Tapi River.…”

“…1). The decrease trend in DO was cumulative effect of idol immersion activities (Desai and Tank, 2010, Azahar, 2011 andMalik et al, 2012) in different rivers of southern Gujarat including Tapi. The free CO2 was generated from the microbial activities and it required for the photosynthesis which affect the algal growth.…”

“…1). Kalita et al (2006) and Malik et al (2012) reported acidic nature of water due to idol immersion in in beel water of Assam and different rivers of south Gujarat. Nag and Pande 2015were also reported increase in acidic nature due to idol immersion in Yamuna river.…”

“…and when these idols immersed in the water body, these components lead to significant deterioration in the water quality (Dhote et al, 2001;Reddy and Kumar, 2001;Bajpai et al, 2002;Mukerjee, 2003;Swain et al, 2005;Vyas et al, 2006;Vyas and Bajpai, 2008;Dhote and Dixit, 2011;Bhat et al, 2012, Kaur, 2012and Bhattacharya et al, 2014. The inputs of immersed idol may cause of the changes in water quality and increase the siltation in water body (Malik et al, 2010;Variya, 2010;Varsani, 2010;Ujjania and Azahar, 2011;Malik et al, 2012 andMistry, 2012). The biodegradable components released through the idol immersion in the water body result in eutrophication (Leland, 1991).…”

Synthesis, Spectral, Thermal and Biological Studies of Some Metal Complexes Derived from Heterocyclic Mono Azo Dye Ligand 2'[(2'-Hydroxy-4-methyl phenyl)azo]imidazole

“…in the azo dyes compounds, such as hydroxyl, carboxylic acid, halogens, esters and amines [19,20]. An important uses of azo imidazole compounds used analytical reagents for solvent extraction to determination of some metal ions [21,22].…”