City police in order to ensure better law and order during the ensuing Durga puja festivity has decided to set up multiple control rooms at strategic locations in city.  Earlier, city police during festivity used to have a police control room at Sakchi thana and near Sakchi roundabout. However, this year, the police are planning to have four such control rooms on the four-days of the festivities. A senior official said that they discussed this plan during the video conference with the state officials.

The police will be setting up temporary police control rooms at Mango roundabout, Tatanagar Railway station roundabout, Golmuri roundabout and Sakchi roundabout.

We are taking all necessary security measures to facilitate the pandal hoppers who will come to the city during Durga puja. The Durga Puja pandals are installed at 320 places in the city. The district administration has already convened meetings with Durga Puja organisers to prescribe a guideline for them.

The puja organisers have been asked to ensure installation of fire fighting system and also to provide identity cards to their volunteers. The norms for entrance and exit points in pandals have also been prescribed,” said a district official.

The deputy commissioner Ravi Shanker Shukla directed police officials to take necessary measures to prevent any inconveniences to the people. The DC said the police personnel will be deputed in large numbers to keep an eye on troublemongers. Magistrates will be deputed at various places to make sure that peace is kept round the clock. Since forcible donation from the community has been a problem for puja committees, the apex body has asked the committees to cut down on unnecessary show off and try for simpler puja which would have the basic necessities.

Officials of East Singhbhum district said that special drive against drunken driving would be carried out jointly by district excise department and district traffic police. “All police stations would be instructed to set up patrolling to nab eve-teasers and youths found loitering near educational institutions and other public places without any valid reasons and initiate proceeding of entering their name in ‘goonda register’,” an official said.