All set for grand Ganesh immersion
Hyderabad: Tasked with ensuring smooth and peaceful immersion of Ganesh idols on Monday, the city police have roped in as many as 30,000 personnel for bandobast duties.
All arrangements have been made to ensure maintenance of law and order during the centralized procession. About 810 CCTVs would also be installed to monitor the movement of the idol procession across the city, Hyderabad Police Commissioner M Mahendar Reddy said on Saturday.
Talking to media, he said that the city police were ready with all the precautionary measures to prevent untoward incidents during the immersion procession on September 8.
About 310 areas have been identified as hyper sensitive and 605 as sensitive areas in the city limits where additional police personnel would be deployed. The immersion processions would start at 9 am on Monday from different points of the city.
'The entire immersion processions will be monitored through 810 CCTV cameras including 315 CCTV cameras which were being used for traffic control. As many as 410 mobile squads are also being deployed to inspect the arrangements at every level of immersion process,' the commissioner said.
The traffic will be halted 12 hours before the start of immersion process from each police station limits. 'As many as 7,000 idols would be immersed on the last day of the nine-day long festival. For this, over 40 cranes and 71 mobile cranes would be used.
City police has detained all the history sheeters across the city to ensure the safety of public and to prevent untoward incidents during the fete,' the police chief said.On the other hand, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Transco, HMSSB, fire prevention department and the Ganesh Utsava Samithi completed all the arrangements for the Shobha Yatra of Ganesh idols. Roads have been cleared of potholes, obstruction points and other impediments.
Hanging wires were also removed and water supply has been ensured. Information Centers would be established on the Necklace Road.The immersion procession would begin with the Balapur Ganesh and would end with the immersion of Khiarathabad idol, the largest in the city.
Hundreds of thousands of people from city and from surrounding areas are expected to witness the procession of idols of various hues and sizes. Several political leaders and religious personalities are also expected to participate in the procession.
News Posted: 7 September, 2014
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