Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who announced the initiative Tuesday, said the city will create drop-off points for broken and damaged religious idols.
- Residents have been invited to suggest locations in local wards, markets, and housing colonies to keep the centres close to where people live.
- Officials said collected idols will be handled with scientific, environmentally sound methods and converted into useful items.
- The scheme seeks to curb the practice of leaving idols under peepal trees, in parks, along roadsides, or in rivers, which hurts faith and creates sanitation problems.
- The government is drafting a detailed action plan now, and the final design will be set after reviewing public feedback.