Under attack for failing to control the unruly situation at Nazrul Manch where Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath on Tuesday sung the last songs of his life in a concert organized by the students’ union of Sir Gurudas College before succumbing to a massive heart attack, the Kolkata Police on Friday announced a standard operating procedure to be followed while organizing high voltage college fests.
Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal on Friday said that according to the new SoP the organizers would have “to ensure certain steps before getting police permissions for concerts in public auditoriums.”
According to the new rules in every such concert the organizers would have to keep two ambulances and a doctor as standby. Besides, “they would have to make arrangements with the nearest hospitals to provide emergency services to those falling sick,” the Commissioner said adding adequate security measures would have also to be ensured.
He also said that organizers would have to print lesser number of tickets than the full capacity of any auditorium where such programme will take place.
Apart from the Police, Kolkata Municipal Corporation as well as the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority too were preparing SoPs for such big public programmes.
Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday said that “the KMC is planning to put in place a standard operating procedure for the organizers,” adding “no team would be given permission by the KMC or for that matter even the KMDA if these SoPs are not followed.”
Some of these new rules are ensuring of proper security bandobast as also “clearance from the management of the college whose students will organize concerts in such big scale.”
Presently the concerts lined up in the coming weeks have been postponed.
In one such programme Mumbai singers Zubin Nautiyal and Sunidhi Chauhan were to sing at iconic Netaji Indoor in the annual fest of Surendranath College.
KK who allegedly had some heart issues died after suffering a massive heart attack on Tuesday evening with a good number of Kolkata doctors saying that he could have been saved had the organsiers or his manager taken him to the hospital which was barely a stone’s throw away instead of the hotel where he had put up.
There was a massive public outcry over the way the organisers — here the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad — had allowed more than 7,000 spectators inside the Nazrul Manch which had a capacity of 2,482 people.