41 magistrates to be deployed
Jamshedpur: Dhalbhum SDO Madhvi Mishra on Wednesday said that 41 magistrates would be deployed along with policemen in different Chhath ghats across the city and other strategic locations for crowd control.
Around 1,800 Jharkhand Armed Police would be deployed in river ghats and other locations while 80 traffic constables would be deployed in various thoroughfares and intersections which witnesses huge turnout of devotees.
Focus is also on the Surya Mandir premises in Sidhgora where chief minister Raghubar Das along with his family would perform Chhath rituals on both the days. Apart from deployment of magistrates, policemen and lady constables, the Chhath celebration would be monitored by a drone. The Surya Mandir premises has two artificial ponds where devotees pay obeisance to the Sun God on both the days of Chhath.
Following suggestions of the Chief Minister Raghubar Das, special security arrangements are being made to ensure safety during Chhath. A three-tier security arrangement has been made for Jamshedpur under which all the ghats would be under surveillance to monitor any dangerous or criminal activity. Besides, the deployment of 1,000 cops, metal detectors will also be used at the ‘sensitive’ ghats to keep the criminals at bay, said an official.
Plain-clothed policemen at the ghats and security officials on boats would be monitoring the situation from the river as experts divers would be nearby in case of any drowning incident.
The Sidhgora-based Surya Mandir Committee, alone will be deploying a drone and install over 40 CCTV cameras for security at the artificial water reservoir used as chhath ghat by over 20,000 devotees and offer free those fruits used in chhath prasads to needy persons.
Working president of the committee, Kamlesh Singh said that the Chief Minister who was in city earlier this week had gave instructions not to compromise on security of devotees and also enable even the poorest to perform puja.
“Chhath is the most famous festival for us and every year thousands of devotees come here to perform rituals. The chief minister, who is our chief patron, has guided us. We have decided to use a drone for aerial surveillance and also install over 40 CCTV cameras at strategic locations at the Surya Mandir premises and near the chhath ghat and the footages of which would be monitored by police as well as our volunteers at the temporary control room to be set up at the temple,” said Singh.
On a social note, the committee has already made arrangement to offer fruits used as chhath puja products free of cost to over 250 needy persons.
Meanwhile, the star attraction will be the two-hour performance of illustrious Bollywood singer Monali Thakur will perform tomorrow.