Jharkhand had to face embarrassment in September during a national sporting event however authorities this time do not want to repeat the mistakes that brought bad name to the State and are working overtime to ensure an uninterrupted and secure Junior South Asian Federation games scheduled to begin from November 10.
learning from the past mistakes made during the event JSEB and Jharkhand Police have tightened their belt to ensure that nothing comes in the way of the event and the event remains free from any untoward incident.
Executive Superintending Engineer, JSEB, A K Singh said that JSEB has made a duty chart especially for SAF games at Hotwar Sports Complex. According to Singh their department has deployed 14 officials from 12 noon to 9 PM and which include three Assistant Engineers and three Junior Engineers and sub-station maintenance staff for the event which is going to begin from November 10 to 12 of this month. Singh also said that they are providing power supply from the nearest Khelgaon Sub-station which has a capacity of 33KV and if somehow it fails they can switch up to Namkum and Hatia Grid which is under his control.
Besides, the JSEB has started a Control Room number 0651-2490558 where complaints can be lodged and will be attended by required officials from 8 AM to 10 PM and which is open for 365 days for the whole town.
Meanwhile, talking about the security arrangements, City SP Manoj Ratan Chothe said that looking into the recent incidents which occurred in the city, Jharkhand police is not ready to take any chance and so they have made three tire security arrangements for SAF games event which is going to be organized at Hotwar Sports Complex from November 10. Chothe said that two DSPs have been given charge for the security arrangements of the sports complex and the internal and external security will be under their control which, include Metal detectors, hand detectors, sniffer dogs, security at the entry gates, parking areas and also on
the approaching roads to sports complex.
City SP also said that as the sports officials and players reaches Birsa Munda Airport they will be escorted with the pilot vehicles till their destination. Security will be provided to the players during their movements as they have no restrictions in going anywhere during the event. He also said that security will be provided to the sports officials who are going to stay in hotels which have been booked for them during the event.