Letter to Municipal Commissioner regarding encroachments on roads by Ganpati Mandals
ALERT CITIZENS FORUM OF INDIA A7/303, Saket CHSL, Saket Marg, Thane (West ), 400601. # 8879528575. August 28, 2015 The Hon. Municipal Commissioner, Thane Municipal Corporation, Thane. CC: The DCP Traffic, Thane City. CC: Shri Sanjay Kelkar, MLA Dear Sir, The Bombay High Court today slammed organisations and persons putting up pandals on public roads during Ganesh Utsavs, Navratri and other festivals and said "these pandals are just extorting money." "In principle we are against all this. We are of the opinion that Ganesh Utsavs, Navratri and other festivals that are celebrated in open spaces of the city should be stopped. Who is benefiting? These pandals are just extorting money," a division bench of Justices V M Kanade and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi said. The remarks were made by the court while hearing two petitions. One had been filed by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) seeking permission to hold their annual Jagannath Rath Yatra and