Lagatar24 Network
Dumka, Jan 10: Deoghar district administration has pulled up socks for crowd control arrangements to be made on the Makar Sankranti day (January 14).
Large number of devotees are likely to throng to Baidyanath Dham temple to pay offerings thereby to pose tough challenge for the administrative stakeholders, particularly in view of the prevailing menace of the Coronavirus being on the rise.
Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri visited the Baidyanath Dham temple on Monday morning and supervised the preparatory arrangements for the upcoming festival. He directed the authorities to remain extra vigilant to enforce the Covid appropriate behaviour by the devotees and priests on the auspicious occasion.
“For the coronavirus continues to register surge elsewhere it is highly imperative for us to remain stick to the Covid appropriate behaviour to prevent its spread in view of the huge crowd of devotees likely to turn up to pay offerings at the Baidyanath Dham temple on the Makar Sankranti day on January 14,” Bhajantri has been quoted as saying in a press release issued by the district public relation department on Monday.
Bhajantri has directed that the devotees must not be allowed entry in the temple premises without wearing masks and that an awareness drive be launched for the common people pertaining to the Covid appropriate behaviour they should follow to prevent its spread.
Preventive measures are already in force at the Baidyanath Dham temple with both the doses of vaccination against the Coronavirus being the prerequisite to qualify for entering into the premises.
A meeting to this effect is also on the anvil which will be presided over by the Deputy Commissioner soon when more tough initiatives are likely to be resolved as part of the administrative measures for the Makar Sankranti event.
