Kolkata: Ahead of the police coordination meeting that is scheduled for Sept 25 and inspections that are set to begin from Sept 27, Kolkata Police is already working on a plan to manage traffic and crowds before Durga Puja commences.
Cops are primarily focusing on adequate crowd monitoring by deploying a large number of volunteers and effectively using public address systems to make key announcements.Managing the huge rush of passengers at Metro stations is also another area that cops have targeted to improve upon.
The Kolkata Traffic Police has identified a few zones where managing traffic during Durga Puja will remain their main concern. Areas like MG Road-CR Avenue crossing, Chetla crossing, Rashbehari crossing, Deshapriya Park crossing and Sovabazar crossing, will be of prime importance. With Santosh Mitra Square set to replicate Las Vegas’s sphere this year, it became the first pandal that got inspected. Additional CP-II Subhankar Sinha Sarkar is likely to make suggestions to its organisers before Mahalaya.