So this is how the Ganeshotsav in Urankar Wadi began…..

Lokmanya Tilak made Ganeshotsav public and started public Ganeshotsav in Mumbai Pune. Girgaon being a bustling area of ​​Marathi people at that time, naturally many public Ganeshotsavs started. The enthusiastic young people of Urankarwadi also decided that they should also start Ganeshotsav in the wadi.
Among those youth were mainly Kamlakar Chonkar, Prabhakar Chonkar, Shankar Mali, Kabu Naik, Haribhau Sawant, Masurkar, Vithu Malekar, Manya Dandekar, Dattu Patil etc………………..