Bappa left earlier than scheduled from many villages in Navi Mumbai owing to heavy flooding in the region on Wednesday. Many devotees immersed their Ganesh idols that had arrived for a five or 10-day stay as their homes submerged under the floodwater. As many as 35 Ganesh murtis were unwillingly immersed in the Pargao, Dungi and Bhangaroada villages on Wednesday.

This was the third flood in the last two months in this belt owing to the Ulwe river diversion and landfilling currently underway for the Navi Mumbai airport. Dungi being the last village on CIDCO's list of villages to be uprooted, its residents were on Tuesday shifted to a school at Karanjade village in Chinchpada. Five other villages were conveniently ignored by all authorities including the tahsildar and CIDCO, villagers alleged.