Friday 08 March 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The State government has decided to set up a committee for the preparations and monitoring of the Char Dham Yatra this year. The chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami gave orders for setting up the committee while taking a review of the preparations for the Char Dham Yatra on Thursday.
He said that officers of the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP)/ Additional SP should be deployed for better traffic management in the Char Dhams. The CM said that the problems faced during the Yatras of the past should be studied and they should be removed this year. He suggested that CCTV cameras should be installed in all the bridle paths and sensitive areas and live monitoring of the four shrines should be done at the level of the State administration. The CM directed that the forecast of the bad weather conditions should reach the pilgrims in time and an arrangement of sending alerts on their phones should be made.
The CM said that the number of toilets on the Yatra route should increase and arrangements for keeping them clean should be made. The CM directed that the work on making the Char Dhams plastic free should be undertaken on a mission mode. He said that the arrangement of 24×7 power supply in the Char Dhams should be done and street lights on the bridle paths should be made.
On a terse note, the CM said that the repair works on the Char Dham roads should be completed before the start of the Yatra and the areas where the roads usually get blocked should be earmarked and the JCB machines should be deployed there. The CM said that necessary arrangements for providing health services should be made and arrangements for providing staff, medicines, oxygen cylinders and equipment should be made in the temporary hospitals on the Yatra route.
Dhami also directed that arrangements for deployment of police, SDRF personnel, traffic police, water police and divers in the shrines and Yatra route should be made.
Cabinet minister Prem Chand Agarwal, chief secretary Radha Raturi, chairperson of BKTC Ajendra Ajay, director general of police Abhinav Kumar and others were present in the meeting.
