Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraverty on Tuesday chaired a meeting called on discussing preparations to be made for Shravani Mela which is flocked by lakhs of devotees of lord Shiva.
The festival is celebrated at Deoghar for one month. Addressing the meeting, Chakraverty instructed officials to make proper arrangements for the festival and to keep ready teams of disaster management to deal with disasters during the month-long mela.
Chakraverty emphasized on providing potable water at several places besides, making arrangements of proper sanitation facilities through mobile toilets at most of the places. Team of doctors and paramedical officials will be pressed for their services during the festival. Health officials have been instructed to be ready with medicines, ambulances and medical equipment whereas the district administration has been asked to pay attention on queue and crown management.
The CS said special focus should be on better transportation facilities and uninterrupted electricity supply for the convenience of devotees. Moreover, to deal with the usual problem of missing people he instructed the administration to make better arrangements to help missing people reunite with their near and dear ones. The meeting also focused on special security of the main entrance to the campus and the temple.
Principal Secretary Cabinet Coordination JB Tubid laid emphasis on using the services of swayamsevaks wherever armed security guards are not needed. A building of prefabricated material will be erected in police line to house police forces that will be deployed in the mela. Principal Secretary, IT, NN Sinha informed the CS that dial-1967 has been set up for emergency services which can be used by people in times of need.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretaries, Secretaries and officials of different departments.