Mayor Alok Sharma inspected the ongoing arrangements for the Ijtema by visiting the venue on Thursday and expressed satisfaction over the preparations.
Sharma while inspecting the site expressed satisfaction over the arrangements made and instructed the officials concerned to ensure better facilities, to make control on the employees deployed for fragment through control room, establish coordination and to establish welcome room at bus stand and railway station besides making adequate arrangements for potable water.
Sharma lauded the Ijtema organizing committee for banning plastic and gutkha in the ijtema premises and assured the committee that the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) would make better arrangements then earlier years at the Ijtema site.
Ijtema organising committee member Attequl Islam was also all praise for the arrangements by the BMC and informed the mayor that right from the day one of the arrangements the BMC has cooperated and is doing very good work.
BMC also carried our cleanliness work and potable water arrangements after the Ijtema concludes that are laudable and for that we are grateful to the mayor and the entire BMC, he added.
BMC officers and employees and Ijtema organizing committee members were present on the occasion.
This would be the 68th edition of the three day Alami Tablighi Ijtema (International Islamic Congregation) in Bhopal that would begin on November 28, soon after the Fajir Namaz (pre-dawn prayers) would come to an end on Monday November 30, morning with the mass Dua (prayer).
Meanwhile, Jamaats from the world over have started reaching the ijtema venue from Thursday morning.
A total of 70 Jamaats that have already arrived are from South Africa, China, Afghanistan, Italy and Iran.