In their bid to cut down time consumed by manache Ganpati mandals to perform immersion on idols on the visarjan day, the police have proposed to limit the number of dhol troupes performing during their respective procession to just two.

“Though the processions start at 10 am, the first five ‘manache Ganpati’ take around eight hours for visarjan. This happens because each mandal has its own six to seven troupes and they occupy two to three chowks.