Kolkata: Cannot prevent in a hurry at the Puja Beach Pandal the most hyped in the city, Bidhannagar police have stopped visitors to a pandal early on Friday.
Pandal is a replica of Iconic Skyscraper Dubai Burj Khalifa made in Sreebhumi in Lake Town.
This step occurred on the day when the number of fresh covid cases in Kolkata moved past the 200 mark for the first time in about four months.
The doctor blames in a hurry that is not responsible at Panja Pandals as the main reason behind RisingCovid-19 numbers in the city.
On Wednesday, the decision was taken for hours after a visit by many senior bureaucrats and IPS officers in Pandal – including Secretary of the Head of HK Dwivedi and ADG Cid Gyanwant Singh and Police Commissioner Bidhannagar Supratim Sarkar – on Wednesday night.
At midnight, the police sealed all the way to a pandal and encouraged people waiting for hours on the VIP Road service lane to see the expelled pandal.
“There is nothing more important than human life.
Therefore it has been decided after a coordination meeting with the club’s authority, to limit the entry of visitors to Pandal for the next few days of Puja.
However, the locals will have access to a pandal in the production of their ID evidence Relevant, “said Bidhannagar CP Supratim Sarkar.
By Nabami in the morning, large iron structures and aluminum were installed at the entrance gate and a large team of officers posted to prevent the entry of visitors.
Loudhailers were taken out when police went asking visitors not to gather around the area and stay away while adding no banners in all the entrance routes.
“We must have been doing something extraordinary that has attracted so many people for this puja.
But with such a trial there is also an accident risk.
Therefore, after meeting with the police, we have decided to stop outsiders’ entry to the Pandal .
But we will directly the Puja Online screen that can be accessed by viewers from 116 countries separate from India, “said Sujit Bose, the Protective Chief of the Puja Committee.
Puja on Jalan VIP has been at the end of the recipient of the controversy from the beginning with a pilot of airline complaining about laser lights disturbing their cockpit while they approached Kolkata Airport to the ground which forced spectacular laser lights to be suspended to be suspended.
But even it does not deter the rollers of revelers that are blocked by VIP Road, service services and all alleys that lead to a pandal concern among the locals and the entire city.
Traffic on the VIP road moves with the speed of snails on all puja nights and no matter what the police tried – from operating the traffic by operating the wings of Kolkata to make subway subway one-way subway forced to have fun to visit Sheebhumi’s detour.
to take the next subway in Golaghata.
On Wednesday the police were even closed lights on the road to Pandal to prevent the scouts but no one helped because the rush of revelers continued to build, which ultimately led the police to suspend visitor entries.
Pandal as high as 145 feet was built using around 6,000 acrylic sheets to make a replica of the Burj Khalifa Dubai.
More than 250 workers worked hard for three and a half months to establish a structure.
The decision to prevent outsiders entries has brought assistance between the locals, which many of them stepped out of their homes for the first time on Thursday.
“So it was in a hurry outside our home throughout the day since last week, we were afraid to even open our window, forget to go down on the road and at risk of infection.
Now visitor entrances have been banned, we can get out of our house and even visit a pandal for the first time at Nabami, “said a local population.
In 2015, a similar situation had forced the police to close the Park of Deshapriya Panja Pandal in South Kolkata.
The idol of Dewi Durga is 88 feet on that occasion and it was mentioned as “the biggest” in the world that has attracted a large number of crowds from afar and widely creating situations such as Stampede in Puja’s place and truly choked on traffic in Rasbehari Avenue for three days After the police sealed the gate and put a cutter around the park to prevent the entry of visitors.