Diwali festival arrangements finalized at Udhampur
16/10/2019
UDHAMPUR, Oct 16: The arrangements for the celebration of festival of lights Diwali were today finalized by district administration here at a meeting of officers and representatives of religious organizations and traders.
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur Dr. Gurvinderjeet Singh chaired the meeting.
Threadbare discussions were held on various arrangements like installation of cracker stalls, security, maintenance of law and order, traffic regulation, drinking water and power supply, sanitation, Medicare, checking of rates and quality of eatables and deployment of fire tenders were finalized.
It was decided that a joint inspection of market would be conducted by the officers of Consumer Affairs and Public Dist-ribution, Health, Munic-ipality, Legal Metrology and Revenue departments to keep a check on the rates and quality of products especially sweets, eatables and fruit items during the festive days. Venue for selling crackers was notified at Subash Stadium.
The PHE and PDD would ensure adequate drinking water and uninterrupted power supply especially at the venue of stalls where people in large number would visit for purchasing crackers and fireworks. The Munic-ipality was asked to ensure cleanliness the venue for cracker sale and entire town.
The Health Depart-ment was asked to ensure first-aid and fire services to deploy fire tenders to meet any eventuality. During the meeting, ACR Udhampur Vikar Giri was appointed the nodal officer for all the Diwali festival arrangements in Udhampur. The traders were asked not to sell crackers at their establishments except the identified venue.
Special stress was laid on cleanliness of the town, ban on use of polythene at the venue and in the market and security arrangements by deploying adequate number of police personnel during the festival days for smooth celebration of festival.
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