HCP hosted Round Table Discussion

 Hyderabad City Police successfully conducted the Round Table Discussion on DJs and Firecrackers in Religious Processions. It was a difficult meeting to organise with representatives of all political parties -Congress , BJP, BRS, MIM , MBT, CPI , CPM, MRPS, TDP, and representatives of all organisations like Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Committee, Khairatabad Ganesh, Balapur Ganesh , Milad Juloos Committee, Sikh Gurudwara Committee, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Sriram Navami utsav committee, Shivaji Utsav committee, all having been invited and all attended. MLAs Danam Nagender , Raja Singh , Moazam khan , ex MLAs Chintala Ramchandra Reddy , Pasha Qadri also attended and spoke.

CP Anand started the meeting with a presentation on the difficulties public is facing due to the use of DJ s and the 500% increase in complaints , showed them the video shots of the recent festivals where the loud decibel levels were demonstrated and the type of damage it’s doing was shown. He also explained the legal position wherein the CP #Hyderabad City is duty bound to take action on sound pollution and fire crackers. The voice recordings of various organisation leaders asking for ban on DJ s were played and the opinion of Doctors on the health of people was explained.

In all about 25 leaders and organisation heads spoke and almost all were in agreement that the time has come for decisive action on DJ nuisance as it is going out of control and also violates the basic practices of any religion. Some speakers expressed that some alternate employment to the DJ suppliers needs to be thought about , that a way to lock the sound levels of DJ s to the legal limits should be discovered while a few expressed the opinion that not on religious but DJ s and fire crackers should be banned even in function halls and political rallies.

Many expressed that Narcotics like Ganja is directly linked to this DJ culture and long periods of dancing abilities. Some said that education of the youth and police station wise meetings with them should be conducted. But , overall they agreed that police and Government should be supported to control this menace and promised to extend their support in every manner possible.