Kolkata: The court order of restrictions entering visitors in a pandal and limiting them at least 10 m from a large pandal has encouraged the organizer to employ more security guards and spread more volunteers for the management of the crowd and the flow of pleasure during durga puja.
Many Puja Committees also decided to set up a large screen at strategic points outside the pandal where the process in the pandal will be immediately channeled so that people can watch them and not much near the pandal.
Additional guards and volunteers will be used to manage visitor movements in front of the pandal where the committee anticipates a kind of congestion.
Saswat Basu Hatibagan Sarbojanin said they would increase the number of private security guards from 30 to 45 years.
“We will need more workforce for the crowd management.
Previously, people would enter from one pandal gate and out of another gate.
Once various sides are used for this purpose.
But this time, we must change people from the same stretch, Which can cause congestion, “said Basu, who is also the general secretary of the forum for Durgotsab.
The Puja Committee has prepared a multi-layer plan for crowd management and sharing with the police.
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“Last year, we observed that visitors tended to stop in front of the pandal, click on pictures, have the right gods and decorations in it.
As a result, the crowd waited for their turn starting to get nervous.
So, we will have a two-branch strategy for the management of the crowd.
Someone will guard The people in front of the moving and second pandal are creating a sufficient buffer zone so that the pressure of the person waiting is not stacking, “said the Swapan Mahapatra, Treasurer of Ekdalia Evergreen Club, one of the largest crowds -Pullers in South Kolkata.
Some smaller pues like a boy club in Tara Chand Dutt Street will also bring police help to manage the crowd.
“We have 15 volunteers and four guards,” said Vikrant Singh from the club.
Many Puja Durga committees have decided to install several screens at various points near the pandal so people get a better view and they have no bunjuyun to a pandal.
“We plan to install many large screens at various lengths of 360 ° views of pandal and rituals in it will radiant.
We will ensure that visitors get a good view on the big screen.
It will also help us prevent crowding,” said Berky Goswami , club secretary.
Bhowanipore 75 Pally organizers have begun to make channels for visitor movements.
“We will use enough guards and volunteers to maintain the movement of visitors smoothly.
We don’t want crowding anywhere so that social distance guidelines don’t run.
There will also be a large screen near the Pandal,” said Secretary of Subir Das.