This year city will see an eco-friendly Ganesh festival this year with the makers of the Khairatabad Ganesh, one of the tallest idols in country - 45 foot high Vishvarupa Ganesha Idol, deciding to use only natural colours. After several rounds of discussions, the Hyderabad district administration convinced the Khairatabad Ganesh Utsav Committee to use natural colours instead of artificial colours laced with chemicals.
"We have agreed to this," said S. Sudharshan of Ganesh Utsav Committee. "We will start painting the idol in the first week of September. The steel structure of the idol is complete." However, the organisers are worried whether the idol will not have the same glow and shine if they use natural colours.
Natural colours are made out of pomegranate bark, chebulic myrobalan (karrakaya), turmeric flowers, neem, henna, palm jaggery, eucalyptus leaves, vegetable oils, turmeric and false calumba root (manu pasupu).
They are soluble in water and cause no pollution.
"We will give the idol glow by spraying oil on natural colours," said Mr Sudharshan. "The cost of paint will come down by at least 25 per cent. We usually spent Rs. 80,000 every year."
The idol would stand 40-feet tall and would be a replica of the Vishwarupa Ganesh with 18 heads standing on a globe. "It will be accompanied by 10 other idols of Sammakka Sarakka, Satyanarayana Swamy, Ayyappa, Kumaraswamy, a snake, a bull and a balance," he added.
More than 100 people have begun work on the idol, which is to be made ready five days before the festival, which falls on September 15. More than 25 workers have been brought from Chennai to design it.
The Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Committee maintained that not all idols could be painted with natural colours. "Natural colours will be used only on 10 per cent of the idols,".
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