The official 2026 advisory is not out yet
Pune City Police issue the visarjan traffic notification — diversions, no-entry windows, parking bans and the heavy-vehicle ban — only a few days before Anant Chaturdashi. The route below is the traditional procession path, which is stable year to year. The diversions around it are not. Check punepolice.gov.in before you travel. We would rather say this than print last year's diversions as if they were this year's.
The miravnuk route
The procession begins at Kasba Ganpati and runs, in the Manache order of precedence, down through the old peths to the immersion ghats on the Mutha. It starts in the morning and continues through the night — the last mandals often reach the ghats after sunrise the following day.
- 1
Kasba Ganpati Mandir
The procession starts here. Kasba Ganpati leads as the first of the Manache five.
- 2
Belbaug Chowk
The mandals converge and the order of precedence is formed up.
- 3
Laxmi Road
The densest stretch of the miravnuk and the hardest to cross on the day. Closed to through traffic.
- 4
Alka Talkies Chowk
Junction onto Tilak Road — a common vantage point, and heavily barricaded.
- 5
Tilak Road
Carries the procession south-west toward the river.
- 6
Z-Bridge / Nadi Ghat
Immersion ghats on the Mutha. Many mandals now use municipal immersion tanks nearby instead of the river itself.
The order the mandals move in is fixed: Kasba Ganpati → Tambdi Jogeshwari Ganpati → Guruji Talim Ganpati → Tulshibaug Ganpati → Kesariwada Ganpati, and then everyone else. See the Pune pandal guide for why.
What to expect on the day
- Laxmi Road is closed to all through traffic, along with most of the connecting peth lanes. Treat the whole old-city core as pedestrian-only.
- Crossing the route is the hard part. Barricading means there are only a few marked crossing points, and they close when a large mandal is passing. Getting from one side of Laxmi Road to the other can take an hour.
- It runs overnight. The procession does not finish on Anant Chaturdashi itself — plan for closures to persist into the next morning.
- Immersion tanks, not the river. Many mandals and most households now use municipal immersion tanks rather than the Mutha, and PMC positions them across the city each year.
Household visarjan days
Most families immerse well before Anant Chaturdashi, on far quieter days. Local immersion points get busy in the evenings but there is no city-wide closure on these dates.
- Dedd din (1½ days)15 September 2026
- Teen din (3 days)16 September 2026
- Panch din (5 days)18 September 2026
- Saat din (7 days)20 September 2026
- Daha din (10 days)23 September 2026
Mumbai
Mumbai's immersions are spread across Girgaum Chowpatty, Juhu, Versova, Dadar and the municipal artificial ponds rather than one procession spine, so closures are local to each route to the sea. Mumbai Traffic Police publish the diversions and the heavy-vehicle ban shortly before the day — see the official advisory.