Our Story
Born from the Sacred, Built for the Earth
Visharjan began with a simple question: what happens to the flowers, idols, and offerings after the prayer ends? We found the answer — and built a movement around it.
Our Mission
To honour the sanctity of devotional offerings by ensuring they never become pollution. We collect, segregate, and transform puja waste into products that give back to the earth and the communities that serve it.
Our Vision
A India where every river remains as sacred as the prayers offered beside it.
Reverence
We treat every offering — every flower, every idol — with the same devotion it was given with.
Responsibility
Waste is not the end of a prayer. It is the beginning of a new purpose.
Community
We work with temples, households, artisans, and farmers — because healing the earth takes all of us.
Sustainability
Every process we run is designed to leave the land, water, and air better than we found it.
How It All Started
In 2019, our founder Sumit Gupta watched workers dump truckloads of marigolds, clay idols, and incense ash into the river after a major festival. The river turned grey. The smell was acrid. And yet the offerings had been made with pure devotion just hours before.
That image stayed with him. He spent the next year speaking to priests, waste management experts, artisans, and environmental scientists. The answer was always the same: the problem was real, the solutions existed, but no one had connected the dots.
Visharjan was founded in 2020 to be that connection — between devotion and ecology, between temples and artisans, between the sacred and the sustainable.
Our Impact So Far
Every number here represents a prayer honoured, a river protected, a livelihood supported.
50+
kg of waste diverted from rivers
1+
temples partnered across India
10+
households served
8+
artisan livelihoods supported
1
cities and growing
₹4L+
paid to artisan communities
The People Behind It
Meet the Team
Sumit Gupta
Founder & CEO
Former environmental engineer with 12 years in waste management. Driven by faith and science in equal measure.
Alok Singh
Head of Temple Partnerships
Former temple trust administrator. Has built relationships with over 120 temples across 8 cities.
Deepshikha
Head of Artisan Network
Master craftsman and social entrepreneur. Manages a network of 200+ artisans across Maharashtra and UP.
Deepak Singh
Operations & Logistics
Logistics specialist who designed our zero-leakage collection system from the ground up.
Be Part of the Mission
Whether you schedule a pickup, partner your temple, or support our work — every action matters.