Ranchi district administration on Wednesday demonstrated its preparedness, on papers, for upcoming festive season and assured of no loopholes from its side. Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar and City SP Kaushal Kishore in a joint meeting with media persons said on Wednesday that the physical verification of all the Pooja Pandals being constructed in the city will start on Thursday and will be completed by Friday.
In its second monthly Media Samvad, an initiative started last month by city administration, Kumar said that all preventive measures were being taken to ensure a happy and peaceful festive season for citizens.
“We have prepared a 19-point guideline for all the Pooja pandals and Akharas, which each one of them are bound to follow. We have also cancelled leave applications of all the officials ranked under me, except extraordinary circumstances, until Dusshera and Muharram pass peacefully,” said Kumar.
The DC added that Sector Police Officials at Police Station level have been deployed in every police station 15 days before the Pooja days start on October 1. “Physical verification of every Pandal will start on Thursday and will be completed by Friday this week. A basic fire-fighting training to volunteers in every Pandal will also take place on 3-4 October, so that they could handle situation if needed. The process of online registration for paddy procurement is also on,” added Kumar.
Adding to this, City SP Kishore Kaushal said that as many as six PCRs had been equipped with GPS machine so far.
“Now we will be able to track their movements on real time. Soon we will have all 30 PCRs in the city GPS machine equipped,” said Kaushal. He said that 28 locations were being equipped with CCTV for keeping tab on movements around during Pooja days.
Kaushal said that opening Thakur Gaon TOP under Ashok Nagar Police Station and recovery of over 12,000 bogus voter IDs were remarkable achievements for city Police this month.
The DC also shared a couple of other initiatives taken and targets achieved. He said that the administration was working on rectifying technical glitches coming across at the time of filling lagan online.
“There have been complaints and we are working to get the problems solved at the earliest,” said Kumar. He said that the land for Regional Centre for Disabled has been located, and it would be handed over to the Government soon.
Media Samvad -3 : Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar (l) alongwith City SP Kishore Kaushal (C) and Sadar DSP Vikash Chandra Srivastava during the Media Samvad at Collectorate in Ranchi on Wednesday. Pix by Vinay Murmu