Kolkata: The Bengal government told Calcutta High Court on Thursday that it did not support banning Mela on this final stage with 30,000 people who had visited Mela and 50,000 reached Bengal on the way towards the church.
The Bengali government said that no one with alleged Covid symptoms will be allowed to go to Gangasagar.
They will be tested and if positive, their entire team will be quarantined.
The state has also explained to the HC that only the pilgrims, who are vaccinated with a dose, will be allowed to move towards Mela Gangasagar or they must show a negative test report of the mouse.
The division bench from the chairman of the Prakash Shrivastava judge and Justice of Kebang Doma Bhutia will soon be in sequence.
The state told HC that they hoped that the total amount to Mela would drop sharply to 4-5 lakh from January 6 to 15.
The state told HC that starting January 9, will deploy 10,000 police, 5,000 volunteers and around 735 medical staff in Gangasagar.
CM Mamata Banerjee declined to comment.
“This is sub-yudice, I can’t say anything,” he told reporters.
At another point he said that he also received a letter from Dilip Maharaj (Secretary General Bharat Sangha) who said most of the monks, who would serve as a volunteer in Mela, had fallen pandemic.
Maharaj then said that despite problems, they keep the volunteer team ready to help the state government for emergencies.
Sangha has a long relationship in working with the state government to help him regulate the church.
The state said it was impossible to vaccinate all pilgrims, instead of all local residents in the Sagar Islands and those who hemming would be vaccinated.
Officials and state staff must test negative 72 hours before reporting work.
The state said the entire local population of the Sagar Islands has multiplied together with all officials to be deployed in Mela.
In addition, the temporary 50 km barricade has been included to arrange a crowd that will be monitored with the help of 1,050 CCTVs and 20 drones.
The state also told HC that in accordance with Covid transmission experts because bathing in the river or salt water was very low.
The state says that e-snan (e-bhathing) by the packaged door delivery of drinking water will be available and there will also be an e-darshan (e-broadcasting) facility from Mela Gangasagar.
Lawyer Srijb Chakraborty questioned the closing logic of KIFF and Joydev Kenduli Mela, who had far lower footsteps, but not gangasagar, which by the entrance ticket itself would have five lakh people.
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