Jamshedpur, Oct 1: To make the festival more colourful and appealing to visitors, the Jamshedpur Durga Puja Kendriya Samiti and the district administration have decided to take steps to make the immersion procession more orderly.
“There has been a lot of hooliganism during the immersion procession in previous years. If we can work on the lines of the cultural programme held during the Republic Day parade, our immersion procession can become one of the most coveted events,” said a senior district official.
Apart from chalking out plans for this year, the district administration zeroed down on certain pandals, which had flouted rules during the puja.
Jamshedpur Durga Puja Kendriya Samiti official said, last year, a lot of women and children had to stand on Adityapur bridge to witness the immersion. For the convenience of city residents, arrangements would be made for high-rise platforms and rostrums at ghats, he said.
Tight security arrangements would be made at the river banks of Kharkai and Subarnarekha launch would be kept ready to rescue people in case of emergencies, the police said.
Various puja venues across the city, including the famous ones in Adityapur and Kashidih see a large number of people gathering to seek the blessings of the goddess this morning. An adequate number of policemen would be deployed across the city to streamline the rush of devotees who were headed towards river banks to immerse the idols.
Taking lessons from the past incidents of bikers’ hooliganism during pujas the district traffic police has also constituted a team of bikers’ police that will keep tabs on the movement of vehicle borne hoodlums, on this puja.
The purpose of the biker’s police team would be to keep an eye on the unruly elements causing nuisance at puja pandals, mostly during evening hours and at night, and prevent petty issues from blowing into a law and order problem, if any.
“As per the feedback from the puja committees we have decided to constitute a team of traffic police personnel that will move around in the city and keep an eye on the unscrupulous elements riding on the two-wheelers,” said a Traffic official.
About the penal action the police officer said the accused will be arrested and a case against the vehicle owner will be lodged.
The Durga Puja Committee officials have said that in recent years the issues relating to rash driving, eve teasing and drunken driving are on the rise and in several cases local puja committees find it difficult to tame such unruly elements.
The job of the bikers’ police team will be to keep mobility with an eye on the trouble makers and local police station officials will be in touch with the mobile personnel to assist them, if required. In addition to this 250 odd traffic police personnel who will be on duty at different locations will also assist the bikers police in getting hold of the disturbing elements.
