Sep 7, 2023

Inter-department coordination meeting held at TSPICCC ahead of Ganesh festival

 The Hyderabad City Police hosted  the inter-department  coordination meeting at the Auditorium with the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi members TSPiCCC- Banjara hills for the smooth conduct of the upcoming Ganesh chaturthi festival to be celebrated from September 18th  and the final immersion of idols on 28th. Mr. CV Anand, City police commissioner; Mr.Ronald Rose, GHMC Commissioner; Mr. D.S.Chouhan, CP Rachakonda; Mr. Stephen Ravindra, CP Cyberabad and Bhagya nagar Utsav Samithi general secretary, Mr. Bhagawantha rao and other office bearers, representatives of Khairatabad Ganesh samithi, Electricity department, RTC , water works, HMDA,Irrigation,Metro & MMTS  attended the meeting. 

At the outset the meeting opened the floor to discussion to seek  the opinions of Bhagyanagar utsav samithi, and in response they brought few issues to the fore regarding potholes, illumination to be made at specific places , making available the vehicles and tuskers to Mandapam oranisers and also about water and food arrangements at midnight  on the day of immersion - for which the authorities assured re-dressal and agreed to deploy all material & human resources.The members lauded & appreciated the services of Police, GHMC and other departments. 


CP Anand  in his address emphasised upon the attendees for streamlining the coordination, exchange of information among  Tri-police commissionerates and urged the representatives of the community to comply with the court orders issued in connection with idol immersions etc., The meeting delved into various aspects of the festival celebration, idols immersions and the procession routes and other arrangements. 

 He appealed to duly fill the intimation forms and informed that last year over 15,000 idols above 10 feet were not officially recorded by police and came unattended .online facility is also available to ease the process . He added that the information received will enable to make proper arrangements, without any shortage by teams of all departments.  Proper security, CCTV coverage, other safety precautions to be taken were informed. 

“Lakhs of devotees will participate in this mega event. All departments must ensure  fool proof measures are in place.” He said. 

“Road repair works, illumination, tree pruning works are being done.” Said the GHMC commissioner Ronald . He also apprised the attendees about the baby ponds, excavation ponds and other measures being taken. Coordination booklet with contact numbers of all department officers will be shared across all stake holders, he informed. CP’s Rachakonda & Cyberabad also addressed the gathering and urged to cooperate with the police.

The electricity department officials has briefed on providing transformers, shock proof arrangements at high foot print areas.The transport department officials has assured of providing tuskers, other heavy vehicles. "We have already started the requistion for vehicles and will be pooled at multiple points across the city which would be staffed by RTOs, MVIs and other officers." said Jt.Commissioner Transport Panduranga Naik.

Cranes deployment, barricading, deployment of ambulances, fire brigade, running additional Metro & MMTS services , mobile toilets, water levels, security aspects,  and other issues were discussed in length.

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