Meerut, India - Nearly 350 Hindu priests participated in a religious ritual called mahayagya, which aims to combat pollution.
Performing the ritual was carried out by a cultural group called Shri Ayutchandi Mahayagya Samiti gathered in Uttar Pradesh city during a nine-day operation.
Reporting from the Times of India on Monday (19/3/2018), the agenda of ritual 'eradication' of pollution takes place in Meerut in northern India.
Beginning on Sunday, March 18, 2018, a total of 108 sacred fire pits have been built on an area of more than 15,000 square feet in the holy land of Bhainsali.
This unique ritual, it is said, will be followed by about 10 million people, and spend wood from various tree species up to 50 tons in number.
However, according to the regional Air Pollution Control Agency (UPPCB) official, R.K. Tiyagi, the ritual actually harm the environment.
"Unfortunately, there is no government policy to regulate this, so we can not do much," Tiyagi said, adding that it would be at risk of exacerbating air pollution in related areas.
Smoke rituals' sacrifices; this probably precipitates a combination of gases and harmful particles - some of them precisely pollutants - such as benzene, formaldehyde, and so on.
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In related rituals, a row of mango wood will be burned using ghee, pure butter from cow's milk, as well as some other mixed ingredients, such as sesame seeds, rice, and barley.
Smoke from a unique combination of spices, by the president of the relevant organizational group, Gyanendra Agarwal, is called able to purify the pollution in the air.
The event was also attributed to donation support of 10 tons of black sesame seeds, six tons of rice, three tons of barley, and 150 boxes of ghee.
Organizing the associated 'sacrificial rituals' is commonplace among Hindu communities in India, especially those living in the north. Not only done communally, this procession is also sometimes done by individuals.
In 2016, a Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker, Virendra Singh, had a chance to mobilize the masses to perform a similar ritual, aiming at increasing rainfall in northeastern India.
A few weeks ago a group in the city of Hyderabad held a sacred wood burning ritual as a prayer for Chandrasekhar Rao, a local politician, to become the next prime minister of India.
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