Ganesh Chaturthi 2026: How British Hindus found a workaround for an 'illegal ritual'
Highlights: Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 begins on 14 September and runs for ten days, ending with Anant Chaturdashi on 23 September. The festival's closing ritual, immersing a clay idol of Lord Ganesha in water, is restricted in UK rivers and lakes under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Water Resources Act 1991. British Hindu communities have spent two decades building workarounds, from Environment Agency-permitted river sites to eco-friendly idols designed to dissolve safely at home. Every Ganesh Chaturthi ends the same way. Ten days after Lord Ganesha's clay idol is welcomed into a home or temple, it's carried out in procession and lowered into water, so that he can begin his journey back. In Maharashtra, that means the Arabian Sea. In Britain, it means the Thames isn't legally yours to use that way, and the diaspora has been quietly solving that exact problem for twenty years. Why can't you just do it in the river? Because British law doesn't make an exception for it. The Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Water Resources Act 1991 both restrict depositing solid material into protected waterways, and that applies to clay idols and religious offerings just as much as anything else, regardless of intent. The Thames, in particular, is treated as a protected waterway, meaning any activity that could affect water quality or wildlife needs formal authorisation from the Environment Agency and, in London specifically, the Port of London Authority as well. That's not a small bureaucratic footnote. It means the single most important ritual moment of a ten-day festival can't simply happen the way it always has back home. So what actually happens instead? A genuine mix of solutions, built up gradually rather than handed down as one official answer. Some communities have secured formal permission for organised immersions at specific spots, Putney and Richmond among them, where councils, the Environment Agency and local Hindu organisations coordinate in advance. Slough runs its own version at the Jubilee River, where the first officially sanctioned immersion took place in 2022, drawing more than 100 families in its opening two days after years of people either skipping the ritual entirely or making do with a bucket at home. For most families, the more practical answer has been to change the idol itself rather than fight the river. Clay and other genuinely biodegradable materials have become the standard for UK-bought murtis, replacing the plaster of Paris versions common in India, meaning a family can perform visarjan safely in a garden pond, a paddling pool, or even a bathtub, and know the material will actually break down rather than sit at the bottom as waste. Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 in the UK Festival begins 14 September Ends (Anant Chaturdashi / visarjan) 23 September Duration 10 days UK public holiday status Not a public holiday; banks and businesses open as normal Permitted river immersion sites Putney and Richmond (London), Jubilee River (Slough), by prior arrangement Common home alternative Eco-friendly clay idols, dissolved in a bucket, paddling pool or bathtub Has London always celebrated it this way? Not for long, in the scheme of things. The first organised Ganesh Chaturthi celebration in London took place in 2005, hosted by the Hindu Culture and Heritage Society at the Vishwa Hindu Temple in Southall, with the idol immersed at Putney Pier. Two decades on, celebrations now draw thousands across London, Leicester, Birmingham and Manchester, with an estimated 10,000 people gathering for festivities at Dollis Hill in some recent years. What started as one community organising a single immersion has grown into a genuinely national, and now genuinely legal, tradition. What does this actually say about the festival itself? That adapting to a new country hasn't meant losing the meaning of the ritual, it's meant rebuilding the practical side of it from scratch. Ganesha is traditionally invoked at the start of anything new, a business, a wedding, an academic year, in much the same way British Hindu communities have marked other major dates on the calendar, from Diwali street lighting switch-ons to how this year's Independence Day landed against the backdrop of the new UK-India trade deal. There's something fitting about a diaspora spending two decades working out, piece by piece, exactly how to keep a ritual alive somewhere it was never originally built to exist. Quick answers Is Ganesh Chaturthi a public holiday in the UK? No. It isn't a recognised public holiday, so banks, schools and most workplaces operate as normal throughout the festival. Can you legally immerse a Ganesh idol in the River Thames? Only with prior authorisation. The Thames is a protected waterway under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Water Resources Act 1991, so organised immersions need sign-off from the Environment Agency and, in London, the Port of London Authority. What's the safest way to do visarjan at home in the UK? Use a genuinely biodegradable clay idol rather than a plaster of Paris one, and immerse it in a garden pond, paddling pool or bathtub, disposing of the dissolved clay responsibly afterwards.
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Digital Desk | Vadodara, Sep 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi received an enthusiastic welcome from the young crowd at the NaMo for Viksit Bharat programme in Vadodara on Tuesday, as thousands of people gathered for an event marking the launch and dedication of major infrastructure projects in Gujarat. PM Modi arrived in Vadodara as part of his visit to Gujarat and Maharashtra, with the Vadodara programme centred on development projects worth more than Rs 35,000 crore. The Prime Minister is scheduled to lay foundation stones, inaugurate and dedicate several rail, road, urban development and renewable energy projects to the nation. A key highlight of the programme is the dedication of three sections of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC), covering 326 route kilometres and developed at a cost of more than Rs 20,700 crore. The sections are Sanand (North)-Makarpura, New Umbergaon-New Saphale, and New Saphale-Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA). The commissioning of these sections marks the completion of the WDFC across its entire length. The corridor will provide direct freight connectivity to JNPA, facilitating the movement of export-import cargo between industrial centres and the port while helping reduce transit time and logistics costs and easing congestion on Mumbais railway network. PM Modi will also flag off freight train services from New Sanand (North), New Makarpura, New Umbergaon, and New JNPT, Mumbai. A new passenger train service between Vadodara and Tanda Road will also be flagged off, benefiting people in Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, and Alirajpur districts. The Prime Minister will dedicate the Jobat-Tanda Road new railway line, developed as part of the Chhota Udepur-Dhar project, connecting remote and tribal areas of Alirajpur with the national rail network. Three railway projects spanning 329 km and costing more than Rs 9,700 crore will also have their foundation stones laid. These include the third and fourth lines between Vadodara and Ratlam, gauge conversion of the Miyagam Karjan-Choranda-Malsar section, and doubling of the Vishwamitri-Dabhoi section. On the road network, foundation stones will be laid for three National Highway projects costing around Rs 1,780 crore. The projects include six-laning of the Kamrej-Chalthan section of NH-48, additional structures including major bridges over the Tapi and Narmada on the Vadodara-Surat section of NH-48, and grade-separated structures at Abhava, Mindhola, and Khajod junctions on NH-53. Six-lane flyovers at Kandari Chokdi and Luvara Patia will also be inaugurated. Projects of the state government worth around Rs 2,600 crore are also part of the programme, including Phase II of the Vadodara Urban Development Authority Ring Road, a 110 MW floating solar project at Kadana Dam, and a new Vadodara Municipal Corporation office. Housing projects under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and a water-supply project covering 11 villages in eastern Vadodara are among the projects to be inaugurated. Ahead of the Prime Ministers visit, public participation for the Vadodara programme was opened through free registration on BookMyShow, with the Vadodara Municipal Corporation managing registrations through the private digital platform. Organisers said all available seats were booked within an hour, while more than 42,000 additional applicants were placed on a waiting list. The event is also using a digital entry system, with registered participants receiving M-Tickets carrying secure live QR codes for verification. Registration, verification, entry, and seating are being managed digitally to facilitate crowd movement at the venue. After Vadodara, PM Modi is scheduled to travel to Mumbai, where he will inaugurate the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in the evening.
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Digital Desk | New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Shares of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri hit an upper circuit on Tuesday for a second consecutive day as GRT Jewellers India Private Ltd proposed to acquire a 74 per cent controlling stake in the company from its existing promoters in an all-cash deal worth Rs 1,033 crore, triggering an open offer for the jewellery retailer's public shareholders. TBZ has said in an exchange filing that it had received a copy of the detailed public statement from Axis Capital -- acting on behalf of GRT Jewellers -- in connection with the open offer. The open offer is for up to 1,72,70,845 fully paid-up equity shares, representing 25.88 per cent of TBZ's voting share capital. The transaction will give GRT control of TBZ, a jeweller founded in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar in 1864. The company has expanded from a single store to 37 stores across 28 cities, mainly in Maharashtra and Gujarat. In addition, TBZ derives roughly 65 per cent of its revenue from wedding and occasion-related jewellery purchases. The proposed acquisition marks a change in control of a business that has remained in family ownership for more than 160 years. Founded in 1964, GRT Jewellers is a jewellery retailer with operations in India and abroad. The public offer gives TBZ's public shareholders an opportunity to sell their shares following the change in control. Following this, shares of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri hit the upper circuit of Rs 545.70 on the BSE, an increase of 4.99 per cent which is also their highest level in 52 weeks, extending gains after hitting a Rs 519.75 upper circuit on Monday. The stock has recorded a 52-week low of Rs 110.95. In the last one-year horizon, the stock has given a return of more than 190 per cent, according to the BSE data.
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