kolkata teams of kolkata municipal corporation and kolkata police on monday manned 15 ghats across the city to ensure smooth immersion of kali idols on monday while not many idols were immersed on monday elaborate arrangements were made to manage crowd at the ghatscops said that adequate arrangements had been made for safe and peaceful immersion cctv cameras have been installed at all the ghats in kolkata where immersion will be conducted around 5000 police personnel manned the roads and ghats of kolkata to ensure smooth immersioncivic volunteers clear the bank of rubbish and debriskolkata municipal corporation had set up a booth in front of the immersion ghat at babughat on monday the day after kali puja idols started reaching babughat from 430 pm the area was cordoned off with barricades and at least 70 cops monitored the area round the clockbesides cops personnel from state civil defence kmc volunteers and kolkata port trust kopt were also deployed to monitor the situation the teams helped lift and extricate the remains of idols from the river to avoid pollution heavy cranes were fixed on barges and to remove large idols and frames from the water our volunteers and personnel from the solid waste management department removed idols from the water immediately after they were immersed cranes were used for large idols said debabsish kumar mmic parks and square apart from the crane atop the barge two more cranes were kept ready on the bank two payloaders carried the immersed idols to dumpers ghats were washed every 20 minutes to clear the muckwe handled over 4000 immersions during durga puja not a single mishap was reported immersion of kali will also be without glitches kumar said according to him apart from 400 kmc volunteers teams from the parks and square department and disaster management group will monitor the immersion process till wednesday some of the ghats including babughat will be closed for immersion after wednesday due to preparations for chhath pujaanother challenge is to remove flowers and puja offerings some of the idols have thermocol in their frames an official said workers of the solid waste management department kept removing the rubbish and dumped it in trucks which then took it to the dumping yardnearly 130 idols were immersed at babughat till 7 pm people wait for the high tide for immersion so immersions increased late evening we are expecting number of immersions to rise further on wednesday said a cop till 10 pm 1500 idols were immersed at 15 ghats in kolkata