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Khairatabad Ganesh idol height will be 9 foot only

Hyderabad: Clearing all the doubts and apprehensions on the height of the Idol of the Khairatabad Maha Ganapati the Ganesh Utsav committee has decided to build only nine-foot height idol this year. Earlier there are many speculations on this issue, Apart from State Capital Hyderabad devotees of several parts of the Telangana and neighboring Andhra Pradesh state are also come here to perform the puja every year.

The organizers of the Ganesh Mandapa, which erects a huge Ganesha every year, have decided to erect a 9-foot-tall statue this time in the wake of the coronavirus. Earlier today the priests conducted the first puja today to start the making of the idol.

The festival committee said that this time a 9-feet-tall  Ganapati was being made as per government directives under the influence of the corona.  Artists from Kolkata are said to be making the statue. Arrangements are being made to immerse the statue where it is enshrined. The festival committee appealed that no devotees should come for the darshan.

Founder of Khairtabad Ganesh Utsav committee S.Sudershan said that the idol will be made of clay and it will be completed in three weeks. He made it clear that the committee has decided to cut short the size of the idol this year keeping in view the Corona epidemic situation. This year two another Ganesh idols will be placed either side of the Ganesh idol.

It may be recalled that due to the pandemic of the COVID 19 the Ganesh Utsav Samithi has decided to celebrate the festival in a low key affair and without much fun and fair. Every year a large no of celebrities apart from political leaders visits the Khairtabad Ganesh pandal for darshan and huge arrangements had taken place to immerse the Khairtabad idol which will be miss this year.