Officials plan crowd mgmt, security measures at KVT

Time of India

8 hours ago

Varanasi: Comprehensive security arrangements will be ensured for heavy influx of devotees at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple during the upcoming month of Shravan.
Divisional commissioner S Rajalingam and commissioner of police Mohit Agarwal held a meeting of officials on Thursday to discuss the facilities and security at the temple for the devotees during Shravan.
They directed the concerned officials to ensure smooth temple visits and necessary arrangements. Emphasis was placed on comprehensive security arrangements and instructions were given to keep all CCTV cameras in and around the temple corridor in working order, and repair malfunctioning cameras immediately.
The divisional commissioner instructed to ensure the arrangement of a centralised sound system. Instructions were also given to arrange an adequate public address system and additional sound systems.
Special arrangements were discussed for the smooth visits of the devotees on Shravan Mondays. For this, robust barricading for queues and adequate arrangements for drinking water and shade will be ensured. Golf carts will be arranged for the differently-abled and elderly from Maidagin and Godaulia.
Officials were instructed to ensure cleanliness and mobile toilets in the temple and surrounding areas. Electrical safety checks are to be conducted on all routes and lanes leading to the temple, including the temple corridor.
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Adequate lighting arrangements should be ensured. Directives were issued to ensure sufficient medical arrangements in place to handle any emergency situations, along with the deployment of NDRF and water police.
All the shops need to display rate charts for items.
The commissioner instructed to prohibit e-rickshaw and pedal rickshaw operations in crowded areas, and the declaration of the area from Godaulia to Maidagin as a no-vehicle zone.
There will be no touch visits on Mondays and a zig-zag system will be adopted for crowd management. Visitors will get entry through Nandufaria, Annapurna, Saraswati, and Bhairav gates while locals will get entry from Kashi gate. Six locations have been identified for the installation of the public address system.
The commissioner said that all duty points should be identified, and the duty of all officers should be assigned fro crowd management.
Proper barricading should be done at all necessary locations, and an officer should be assigned to monitor it. The municipal corporation was asked to assign cleaning staff on shift duty and provide temporary locker facilities for the visitors. Instructions were also given to repair street lights on the routes.
The chief medical officer was instructed to deploy health department teams in shifts at the temple and arrange small ambulances for emergency situations.
The Public Works Department was directed to repair various damaged roads and make parking arrangements at Harishchandra College, Nagari Pracharini, and Sanatan Dharma Inter College.
Varanasi: Comprehensive security arrangements will be ensured for heavy influx of devotees at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple during the upcoming month of Shravan.
Divisional commissioner S Rajalingam and commissioner of police Mohit Agarwal held a meeting of officials on Thursday to discuss the facilities and security at the temple for the devotees during Shravan.
They directed the concerned officials to ensure smooth temple visits and necessary arrangements. Emphasis was placed on comprehensive security arrangements and instructions were given to keep all CCTV cameras in and around the temple corridor in working order, and repair malfunctioning cameras immediately.
The divisional commissioner instructed to ensure the arrangement of a centralised sound system. Instructions were also given to arrange an adequate public address system and additional sound systems.
Special arrangements were discussed for the smooth visits of the devotees on Shravan Mondays. For this, robust barricading for queues and adequate arrangements for drinking water and shade will be ensured. Golf carts will be arranged for the differently-abled and elderly from Maidagin and Godaulia.
Officials were instructed to ensure cleanliness and mobile toilets in the temple and surrounding areas. Electrical safety checks are to be conducted on all routes and lanes leading to the temple, including the temple corridor.
Adequate lighting arrangements should be ensured. Directives were issued to ensure sufficient medical arrangements in place to handle any emergency situations, along with the deployment of NDRF and water police.
All the shops need to display rate charts for items.
The commissioner instructed to prohibit e-rickshaw and pedal rickshaw operations in crowded areas, and the declaration of the area from Godaulia to Maidagin as a no-vehicle zone.
There will be no touch visits on Mondays and a zig-zag system will be adopted for crowd management. Visitors will get entry through Nandufaria, Annapurna, Saraswati, and Bhairav gates while locals will get entry from Kashi gate. Six locations have been identified for the installation of the public address system.
The commissioner said that all duty points should be identified, and the duty of all officers should be assigned fro crowd management.
Proper barricading should be done at all necessary locations, and an officer should be assigned to monitor it. The municipal corporation was asked to assign cleaning staff on shift duty and provide temporary locker facilities for the visitors. Instructions were also given to repair street lights on the routes.
The chief medical officer was instructed to deploy health department teams in shifts at the temple and arrange small ambulances for emergency situations. The Public Works Department was directed to repair various damaged roads and make parking arrangements at Harishchandra College, Nagari Pracharini, and Sanatan Dharma Inter College.