CM Naveen Patnaik attends last review meeting for Rath yatra 2023

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday attended the last special review meeting on the onset of Rath yatra. CM Naveen Patnaik attended the review meeting through video conference.

Apart from the Chief Minister, the Minister of Energy, Urban Development Minister, Transport Minister, and Law Minister were also present at the meeting.

Chief Secretary, DGP, Shri mandir Chief Administrator, RDC including various Officials of the department, servitors, and old people of the city attended the review meeting.

Earlier, security preparatory meeting at State Police Headquarters in Cuttack as lakhs of people across the globe is expected to throng the holy city during this world-famous Cart Festival.

Besides, a huge crowd is expected in Puri city during important rituals like Nabajauban Darshan (will be held on June 19), Sri Gundicha Yatra/ Ratha Yatra (on June 20), Bahuda Yatra (on June 28), Suna Besha (on June 29) and Niladri Bije (on July 1). In order to conduct all these rituals of the deities peacefully and successfully, the meeting took the following decisions:

• Elaborate security arrangements will be made during the major events of the Cart Festival like Nabajauban Darshan, Sri Gundicha Yatra, Bahuda, Suna Besha, etc.
• RAF and CRPF will be requisitioned well ahead of time to provide extra security coverage.
• Senior Police Officers will be assigned to specific duties.
• Requisition of Bomb disposal squads/ HHMDs, DMFDs, and Metal Detectors.
• Counterintelligence squads.
• VVIPs security.
• Communication arrangements and preparation of a comprehensive plan/ arrangement allotting different channels.
• Provision of Cranes/ Vehicles/Other Gadgets.
• Installation of C.C.T.Vs.
• Provision of Road Divider/ Delineator and Traffic cones.
• Strengthening Beach patrolling.
• Issues related to Bus-Operators.
• Opening of Temporary Police Aid posts.
• Regulation of Traffic.
• Accommodation of Officers/ Force.