Chennai: There are nearly 50% of the fall of visitors to major temples throughout the city on the first day of this year compared to the appropriate days in normal years, said a city police officer.
Responding to disturbed roads due to high intensity rain recently, worshipers attacked the temple on Saturday.
The city police were deployed about 600 personnel for the crowd management there.
Additional personnel were deployed at the Mylapore Kabeeshwarar Temple and Shri Parthasarathi Temple at Triplicane to control the crowd of worshipers.
Footsteps in temples are less in the morning.
Some worshipers choose to visit temples at night.
At the Temple of Parthasarathi in Triplicane, around 50 police personnel were deployed in and outside to arrange worshipers.
The police installed wooden barricades to arrange people in the queue to enter the temple.
Officials of the Police Council and Endowmen of Religion and Charity (HR & CE) conducted thermal scans and provided sanitaryers to worshipers at the entrance of the temples in Mylapore and Triplican.
Commissioner of Mylapore District from Police Disha Mittal said, “We provide facial masks to those who visit the temple without wearing it.
We have also installed a temporary CCTV camera and gives instructions to visitors through a public addressing system.” “When the state government has not issued a limit for them Visiting religious places, happy people and the main minister is also happy, “said Minister of Human Resources PK Sekar Babu to Ti.
The minister visited a temple in Thiru Kuvazhai in Thiruvarur district to ask about Maragatha Lingam Idol who was restored a few days ago from the bank locker in Tharvur.