CP to meet Kali Puja organisers on Wednesday
The Statesman | 14 October 2025Sources at Lalbazar said that several important pertaining to the law and order situation, sound and environment pollution during the festivals would be discussed in the meeting on Wednesday, hardly five days before the Kali Puja festival, which is scheduled on 20 October this year.
Representatives of all Kali Puja committees, under the KP jurisdiction, have been asked to attend the meeting where Mr Verma would discuss the issues, sources said.
The commissioner, along with other senior police officials, would sensitise the organisers on several prime issues like strengthening measures to prevent use of sound and environment polluting crackers and fireworks in the city, blaring of loudspeakers within a stipulated time and permissible sound limit as per directives of the high court and guidelines related to immersion rules, it’s learnt.
The high court has already directed that the sound limit of fire crackers would be restricted to maximum 90 decibel.
Besides the representatives of the puja committees, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB), fire services and CESC would also be present in the meeting, police sources requesting anonymity said.
Sources also said that police are flooded with complaints of using banned sound crackers and blaring of loudspeakers violating strict directives of the court every year in different parts of the city during Kali Puja.
“This time, police would intensify its vigilance to prevent use of banned crackers and loudspeakers violating the court directives. All police stations under the KP have already been alerted to keep strong vigilance so that banned crackers can’t be sold and smuggled into the city. Drones will also be deployed to keep watch from the top,” a senior police official said.
Officers-in-charge of all police stations have also been asked to attend the meeting.
The official also said that additional security arrangements would also be pressed into service in different sensitive pockets in the city to maintain law and order situation under control on the eve of Kali Puja.
“KP have already successfully managed to keep law and order situation peaceful during the Durga Puja festival without any untoward situation,” he said.
