Kolkata: Taking a lesson from the failure that caused visitors to be prohibited from entering Pandal from Ashtami’s night, Srebhumi Sporting officials at Lake Town said they would further emphasize the control steps of the crowd and began planning it in close coordination with the police seven to eight months before the Puja.
“From next year, we will plan the entrance to the visitors from March.
It will give us and the police who are enough time to plan the crowd’s spread movement in a way that is far better than what happened this year.
We will also talk to experts in crowd management , “said Sujit Bose, the Minister of State Fighting and the Head of Puja Patron, which has become a show of shows this year with a pandal inspired by the highest building in the world – Burj Khalifa in Dubai – drawing a large crowd until the police stopped visitor entries.
Sudipto Kumar, Secretary of the Uncle Committee Deshapriya Park who had met with a similar fate in 2015 when the police forbade visitors to their pandal from Panghami after a situation like a raid, said that since then they held puja.
“Since that year and so on, we have lowered their puja and spends almost half of our Puja’s budget in the precautions of barricades and crowds.
Furthermore, we also sat with the traffic police department in Lalbazar six months before the puja with our theme details, “Kumar said.
Read Alsolow-key End To A Durga Puja FestivalSda Festivities Puja ended on Friday with low idol immersion followed on Saturdays too.
Soaking takes place without music or fireworks and under strict awareness of the VIP road administration comes out of equipment.
That attraction is a 145-foot pandal.
But, following complaints from several angles, the first of Kolkata Airport with the use of pandal laser lights that interfere with the pilot during the important landing sequence and then from the local population and the administrative section that was annoyed with the density that had caused people to fall and even hurt, the police issued a shutdown order to the committee on Ashtami’s night.
The laser show was closed after Saptami.
The instructions to turn off the pandal were released about three hours after police Bidhannagar Komisarier forced the organizer to turn off the pandal light to prevent visitors.
“In Ashtami, the crowd was in such a way that we first closed the lights, then closed the three channels that led to a pandal for some time.
But the crowd began to jostle the hours, resulting in a situation like a raid.
The pedestrian keretajana was also made one The direction for use by people who came out of the pandal.
But nothing worked and we had to stop visitors permanently, “said a senior police officer Bidhannagar.
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