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A team of 150 people deposited the money over the course of a month – under video surveillance for security, said an employee of the temple in the southern Indian metropolis of Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Many temples are decorated for the annual festival in honor of the Hindu elephant-headed god Ganesha. But the fact that money is used and so much is unusual. Every year an attempt is made to celebrate in a special way in the temple in Bengaluru, one of the temple administrators, Mohan Raju, explained the campaign to the Hindustan Times.
Millions of statues are sunk
During the festival, which lasts several days, Indian families and street communities also house Ganesha statues at home, which are ceremonially lowered into water to dissolve at the climax of the festival. This sometimes happens in tanks specially set up for this purpose, but also in the sea. Millions of these statues are made every year.
In recent years, the festival has also attracted criticism. Environmentalists criticize that the statues are partly made of plaster that is difficult to dissolve in water and painted with oil-based paints, which often contain toxins and heavy metals. Less environmentally harmful materials such as clay or papier-mâché are only slowly gaining acceptance because of their lower resilience.
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