Taking cognisance from recent disaster, Uttarkhand Government has decided to conduct Kanwar Mela-2013 in peaceful and professional manner. In this regard State Government officials had a meeting with inter State administration and police officers in Haridwar.
With an intention to conduct Kanwar Mela-2013 in peaceful and professional manner, Uttarakhand Government has pulled up its socks.
In this regard, Garhwal commissioner convened a meeting with inter-State and inter-district administrative and police officers in which they sought their suggestions on how to perform Mela this year. During meeting they unanimously decided to have registration of Kanwar Yatri (pilgrims) at the entrance. In which Kanwarias’ name, address and mobile number will be mentioned in the registration paper by the concerned district administration and will be forwarded to the district magistrate, Haridwar.
Even if pilgrims fail to register at their border district then they can register themselves in five places, including Chidiyapur, Santarshah, Ghanauri, Jagjitpur and Railway station of Haridwar district. In these places, registration would be done under the surveillance of video camera. To maintain law and order during Yatra season Government has decided to ban Disc Jockey (DJ), hockey, Stick, trident and arrow.
Moradabad Commissioner Shivshankar Singh disclosed that to ensure smooth flow of Yatra we have made arrangements of street light, health camps, mobile teams and traffic officials. Besides it we would have better coordination with Uttarakhand Government officials to so that we can control the crowd in short time period if it required.
Haridwar DM Dr Nidhi Pande said that Kanwar route are being prepared and sanitation works are in progress. We are also raising health camps, tap water and street lights on way to Yatra route. DIG Sanjay Gunjyal said that “maintaining law & order would be our top most priority. Wherever it requires then we would take action under Police act and pollution act as well strictly.” Garhwal DIG Amit Sinha said that to “ensure peaceful conduct of Kanwar Yatra we have decided to deploy 14 companies of PAC, two Rapid Action Force (RAF) and ITBP personnel would be deployed as static guard.” Besides it we have sought six companies of RAF from Union Government. Haridwar SSP Rajiv Swarup made power point presentation to brief the Kanwar route and police preparation to deal with any exigency.
The meeting was attended by Dehradun DM BVRC Purushottam, Tehri DM Nitesh Kumar Jha, Bijnore DM Ajaydeep Singh, Muzaffarnagar DM Surendra Singh, Saharanpur DIG DC Mishra, Meerut DIG K Satyanarayan, Tehri SP Janmejay Khanduri, Pauri SP VImla Gunjyal, Muzaffarnagar SSP Manjil Saini, Bijnore SSP Rajesh Kumar, Kanwar Mela nodal officer Anand Srivastava, SP Rural Ajay Singh, SP City JS Bhandari and administrative and police officer of Haryana and Delhi as well.