In view of large number of rural people and outsiders turning up to enjoy Navratri and Dussehra festivities at Jagdalpur, the police administration has chalked out special security arrangement for the occasion.
According to plan, more than 500 police Jawans drawn from all districts of Bastar division will be deputed to in different places of the city to ensure safety of people whereas all the thanas of the divisional headquarters will be linked with the control room established i front of Danteshwari Temple. In the one-to-one arrangement, in-charges of the security set up will be in touch of their subordinate officials directly.
Additional Superintendent of police S R Salam said that city SP has been assigned to see security both in urban and rural areas.
More than two dozen spots have been fixed where 3 Inspectors and t DSPs will ensure round the clock patrolling. Meanwhile, for the last three days checking of vehicles is in progress as also security personnel in plain dress have been placed at over a dozen places in the city. For the convenience of pedestrians proceeding towards Dantewada, In-charges of all the thanas falling on the route have been asked to regulate the traffic of heavy vehicles.
Salam said that for improving the nagging traffic system in the city police have undertook many steps. Since people are callous towards traffic rules and even indulged in driving vehicles without registration number, top police officials themselves have taken the task of improving the situation in their own hands.
Continuous vehicle checking drive, arrests of anti social elements, seizure of narcotic drugs and ban on their sale, checking of hotels/restaurants are part and parcel of police drive to check the activities of anti social elements. Thana in-charges have been given the hard instructions that neither common man nor tourists feel harassed due to the drive.
During the Rath Parikrama from Navratri to Dussehra, traffic will be diverted at Gurunanak Chowk, Gole Bazaar, Circuit House, Thakur Road, Near State Bank of India and other places for some time daily, the police official said.