Dehradun police have made elaborate security arrangements in view of Dussehra festival on Tuesday. A traffic plan has been drafted to spare the commuters inconvenience due to the festivities.
Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Date held a meeting with Dussehra Committee members on Monday during which he gave them necessary instructions regarding the security of the programme of torching Ravana in its effigy scheduled at Parade Ground and other places on Tuesday to mark Vijaya Dashami. Date directed police station in-charges to intensify patrolling in their assigned areas and depute adequate police forces at the venues where the programme of torching Ravana in its effigy would be held.
The police officers were directed to deploy traffic police forces and local police in traffic management during religious procession to be taken out by the Dussehra committees. No cart vendors, selling fruits, juice and others along the roads around Parade Ground area would be allowed. Besides, barricades would be installed at the venues where the effigies of the demon trio - Ravana, Kumbhkarna and Meghnad- would be torched to manage the crowd.
Date asked SP City and SP Traffic to take appropriate measures to complete the event peacefully.
SP Traffic said that barricades will be put at places like Faltu lane, Subhash Road, Darshan lal Chowk, Dunga House Crossing, Kanak Chowk, Rojgaar Crossing, Convent crossing, Oriental Chowk, lansdowne Chowk, Surve Chowk and other places. All the buses plying from Parade Ground for Cantt, Rajpur Road would be diverted through Oriental Chowk. Buses for Raipur, Maldevta and Sahastradhara Road would ply from Chuna Bhatta. Parking venue for VVIPs has been made at Doon Club, Dunga House and Old Raipur bus station. Visitors can park their vehicles at Pavilion Ground, Ranger’s ground, MDDA free parking zone and MDDA complex. Vikram routes have also been changed too.
Meanwhile, artists involved in making effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkarna and Meghnad were seen putting the effigies at Parade Ground and other places in the evening on Monday.
The effigy of Ravana, the demon king, to be torched at Parade Ground in Dehradun to mark the day will be 60 feet tall while those of Kumbhakarna and Meghnad, his brother and son, would be 55 feet and 50 feet respectively. The effigies will be lit at around 6.05 pm on Tuesday.