Use thermocol ... a unique backdrop if considered in the decoration ideas. Colourful backdrop: Use colourful kites of different sizes in the background and place them behind the idol.

Kamlesh Dharmik, a vendor from city, says, “Due to better finishing, thermocol is used widely. We start making the decoration material months in advance but this time, we will have to scrap it.

"I had painstakingly built a large two-acre factory of thermocol decorations in village Loni Mavda, Ahmednagar. Large cardboard makhars are also an alternative to the costly and harmful ones made ...

Shopping for the Ganesh festival in Ravivar peth is on full swing, however, a majority of the decor on sale is thermocol.(HT/PHOTO) The wholesale market for these decorations is Bohri aali and ...

At a time when many mandals and families are figuring out how to deal with the plastic and thermocol ban for Ganeshotsav decorations, Nanasaheb Shendkar may have the answer. At his shop in Lalbaug ...