On the fifth day of Ganesh festival, September 14, a total of 37,439 Ganesh idols were immersed in water bodies across Mumbai till 9 pm, with no untoward incident being reported for anywhere so far, a BMC official said.
A civic official also stated that of the 37,439 Ganapati idols that were immersed, 328 were ''sarvajanik'' or public ones and 33,351 were household ones, with 19,544 idols, comprising 17,344 domestic and 185 Sarvajanik ones, being immersed in artificial ponds.