World famous Shravani Mela is going to be organized this year at Deoghar after a gap of two years due to the corona pandemic. As the month-long fair is going to be organized after two years, the Deoghar district administration has started preparations.
The Deoghar administration, adopting a strict attitude, has decided to remove illegal encroachment on roads, the district administration has given three days' time to shopkeepers who encroached the roads. After this directive, there is a panic among traders in Deoghar city, especially those who have encroached roads.
Recently Deoghar Municipal Corporation organized a meeting of traders and public representatives of the district with an aim to provide better facilities to the devotees coming to Shravani Mela and to get rid of traffic jams. It was unanimously decided in the meeting that five days' time will be given to footpath shopkeepers and businessmen, and within the deadline if the encroachment is not removed then the Municipal Corporation will forcefully clear the encroachment with the help of policemen. Municipal Commissioner of Deoghar Municipal Corporation Shailendra Kumar Lal said that 'the devotees coming to Deoghar should go back with a good message, for this they will have to make the city neat and clean along with free from traffic jams'.
Also work is done at a fast pace to provide drinking water facilities on the roads of the Mela area. By Sunday, the work of roads along the Kanwaria route line will be completed. Work from Tiwari Chowk to RK Mission, Jalsar Road, Nandan Pahar Road and Kumaitha Road has been completed. Around fifty percent of stand tube wells have been installed on the Kanwariya route line. 70 per cent work of sand walking in Kanwaria path has also been completed.
The work of laying sand on Kanwaria Path will start from June 30. Apart from this, the work of repairing the toilet of PhD and installing chappal in Kanwaria Path is being done at a fast pace. In the next three days, the work of repairing the electric wire will be completed in Kanwaria Path. On June 30, Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh will reach Deoghar.
The Chief Secretary will hold a review meeting at Circuit House to review the preparations for Shravani Mela. Keeping this in mind, the works of Kanwaria Path and Route Line have been sped up. In Deoghar-Baskinath road also 60 percent repair work has been completed. In Deoghar-Basukinath road, work is being done by dropping sand on the side of the road for the walking of the Kanwariyas.