The Goud Saraswat Brahman Temple Trust, who own and run Mumbai’s Banganga Tank clear around one tonne of dead fish from the tank every year a day after Sarva Pitru Amavasya. “It is a matter of religion and faith, we cannot ask people to not conduct rituals for the death at Banganga. But, on our part, we spread awareness to keep the tank clean, we have also proposed that one-fourth of the tank be used for rituals, while the rest be kept clean. Gulgule further went to add that at times even sewage water from the neighbouring societies was disposed in the tank, further polluting the water. Though there are some abiding by it, there are quite a few who still put pind in the tank,” said an official.

Source: Hindustan Times September 21, 2017 06:45 UTC