Most of the Ganesh mandals in the city have turned to thermcol alternatives such as wood, paper, foam board, cardboard and plaster of Paris to decorate their pandals. Still, there is a high demand for ...

Mumbai, June 25 (PTI) Maharashtra Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam today sought to clear the confusion prevailing in the public over the ambit of the plastic ban that came into force on June 23.

While the ban on plastic, introduced in the state on March 23, has not been effective, the ban on the sale of thermocol has been near total, as a result of which artisans are unable to make decorative ...

City turns to scrap material, plumbing pipes and cloth for environment-friendly decoration ahead of the Ganeshotsav in September This has resulted in losses for whom the season is one of the busiest.

Thermocol, or polystyrene foam, can no longer be used for decorations during Ganesh Chaturthi, the Bombay high court (HC) declared on Friday. The court was responding to petition, filed by the ...

At a time when many mandals and families are figuring out how to deal with the plastic and thermocol ban for Ganeshotsav decorations, Nanasaheb Shendkar may have the answer. At his shop in Lalbaug, ...

In April 2018, after the Bombay High Court banned the sale of thermocol decorations during Ganeshostav festival, the future of the 25-year-old well-established Makhar industry is in tatters. The ...

Over the years, thermocol items are extensively used to decorate Ganpati pandals (temporary structures set up to keep Lord Ganesh idols). (PTI) The Bombay High Court today declined to relax the ban on ...

Mumbai: The state government is mulling allowing thermocol decorations during Ganeshotsav. However, environmentalists feel that once the government makes one exception, there will be similar dem-ands ...

The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to relax the ban on sale of decoration items made of thermocol for use in the forthcoming Ganpati festival in Maharashtra. A division bench of Justices A S Oka ...