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Preparations for Nellaiyappar Temple's ‘Aani' car festival reviewed
District Collector R. Sukumar chaired a meeting on Monday to review the preparations to be put in place ahead of the famous 'Aani' car festival of Sri Nellaiyappar Temple to be held on July 8.
As the 'Aani' festival of Sri Nellaiyappar Temple, the foremost celebration of the shrine, commences with the flag-hoisting on June 30, the car festival will be held on July 8, where thousands of devotees would participate to draw the State's third largest car along four streets around the temple.
Hence, the meeting was organised at the Collectorate on Monday to review the preparations to be made ahead of the festival.
He said the police, besides deploying the personnel in sufficient number along the four car streets around the temple, should enforce traffic diversions to avert traffic jam on the car streets. The west-bound vehicles from Tirunelveli Junction should be diverted via Bharathi Street, South Mount Road, West Mount Road and Courtallam Road during the festival.
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation officials should inspect the power cables, electric poles, transformers etc. around the temple in advance for taking necessary precautionary measures.
The Corporation officials should inspect the roads on all four car streets and take necessary steps for either repairing or re-laying the roads wherever it is necessary so that the car can be drawn smoothly. Moreover, the Corporation should deploy the sanitary workers for sprinkling bleaching powder on the car streets and along the streets leading to the temple and collecting garbage.
The Department of Highways should immediately re-lay the road between Tirunelveli Town Arch and the temple as this small stretch being used by thousands of vehicles is in the worst shape.
The Fire and Rescue Services personnel, along with a fire tender should be stationed near the temple and the Department of Public Health should create health posts with ambulance near the shrine with all basic medicines.
The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation should operate special buses to avert crowding, he said.
Corporation Commissioner N.O. Sukhaputra, District Revenue Officer M. Suganya, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Tirunelveli West, Prasannakumar, and other senior officials from various departments participated in the meeting.
