After a gap of two years, the Mumbai Police have deployed adequate personnel for the Ganesh idol immersion today, September 9, on the occasion of Ananth Chaturdashi.
According to reports, around 10,600 traffic policemen, home guards, traffic wardens, civil defence personnel, NSS and Road Safety Patrol volunteers will be deployed for managing crowds during immersion. Various NGOs will also assist the police besides volunteers from water safety patrol.
Moreover, the police will also make use of drones to monitor and maintain the crowd. They will be making use of megaphones and loudspeakers to guide the crowd and to provide update on the missing people, especially children.
In addition, the Mumbai Police like every year have undertaken all out operations to crack down on anti-social elements, combing operations in hotels and guest houses and putting up nakabandis to check the vehicles carrying suspicious materials.
Mumbai is all set to see Bappa off and so are we.
— मुंबई पोलीस - Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) September 9, 2022
In view of #AnantChaturdashi officers & police personnel have been deployed across the city to ensure a warm & safe farewell for Bappa.
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Besides the major Visarjan points like Girgaon Chowpatty, Shivaji Park, Juhu and Malad, the police said there are 73 natural lakes and 162 artificial ponds made by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) where the immersion of household Ganesh idols will take place.
The traffic police have placed barricades on the roads to segregate the crowd from the vehicles to prevent any untoward incident.
They have also set up five traffic police control rooms at important immersion places — Girgaon Chowpatty (beach), Shivaji Park Chowpatty, Juhu Chowpatty, Malad Malwani T Junction and Ganesh Ghat, Powai.
If reports are to be believed, till now, 2.70 lakh Ganesh idols have been immersed and the number of Ganesh idols, including gigantic idols, is the highest on the last day (Friday), said a BMC official.
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