Now that the city has bid goodbye to Ganpati and the excitement from 10 days of celebration is ebbing away, it is time to take a good, hard look at the city and utter two words —clean up.

Huge mandals now must show a sense of responsibility. They need to clean up the place, after bringing down the bamboos used for the pandals that had been built for the festival. One can see that the bamboos have been pushed into the ground in order to build the pandals. There are also several ‘viewing’ galleries all over the city, where bambooos have ben erected to make viewing platforms for the various pandals.