Planning to visit Andhericha Raja pandal? check out the dress code

Going for a pandal hoping during Ganeshotsav beware of dress codes as a few mandals will be placing dress code boards around the pandalLike every year the Andheribased Andhericha Raja pandal will be asking the devotees to wear traditional clothes or at least a decent pair of clothes in order to take the blessings of Lord GaneshaYeshodhar Phanse the chief advisor of Andhericha Rajas Azadnagar Sarvajanik Utsav Samiti said Its been 12 years that we have been asking devotees to wear traditional or decent clothes rather than wearing half pants or sleeveless clothes It is a traditional festival so we expect devotees especially the younger generation to wear decent clothesUday Salian a spokesperson of the mandal added We have kept a few pairs of track pants near our pandal as a backup plan for people who are not aware of the dress code They can wear the track pants and enter the pandal to offer their prayersAlso Read Buying sweets for Ganeshotsav FDA has a advice for youWhile not many pandals in the city have any kind of dress code a few like to create awareness about wearing traditional clothesAdhwait Pedhamkar joint secretary of the Ganesh Gallis Mumbaicha Raja said We are creating awareness about how people should wear traditional clothes but we are not making it compulsory It is peoples choice what they should be wearing We are only creating awarenessOne of the most popular and famous Ganesh mandal Lalbaugcha Raja says that they dont follow any dress code Bala Kamble president of the Lalbaugcharaja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal said We have no restrictions on what people are wearing We dont follow any dress code or any particular guidelines on what devotees should wear It is on the will of devotee what heshe wants to wearGanpati InsuranceThe Ganpati mandals usually pay the premium and get their pandal insured every year for accidental and natural calamitiesThis year the Andhericha Raja has an insurance cover of Rs 570 cr Keshav Tondvalkar chairman of Andhericha Raja said Out of the 570 cr around Rs 15 cr is insured on a golden crown of the Lord Ganesh idol And a few amounts are insured for other ornaments such as sliver rat and a few jewellery of his feet Besides this we have insurance for the devotees and volunteers for natural calamities and accidental casesWe have insurance in lakhs Most of the insurance is covered for jewellery and a 505 kg old necklace which is offered on the idol every year Around Rs 1000020000 amount is reserved for devotees while most of the accidental and natural calamities insurance is covered for our 200 volunteers added PedhamkarSpeaking about the insurance cover of Lalbaugcha Raja Kamble added This year our total insurance is of 2563 cr which includes the ornaments accidental death and natural calamities Out of the total Rs 2563 cr more importance Rs 12 cr is given to accidential death and natural calamities of all the volunteers devotees and residents