The two-week long Kanwar Teerth Yatra, that is one among the largest pilgrimages of the country, begins tomorrow, the primary day of the month of 'Savan' of the Hindu calendar.
Thousands of Shiva devotees, known as kanwarias, driven by religion and effort all the vagaries of weather, can begin walking back to their destinations, carrying 'Gangajal' in decorated kanwars (bamboo structures), whereas the complete atmosphere can reverberated with their chants of 'Bum Bum Bhole' and 'Har Har'.
With this 'Gangajal' they're going to anoint Lord Shiva within the temples of their individual regions on the auspicious occasion of 'Shivratri' on July twenty five.
Last year nearly 1.75 crore kanwarias came to Haridwar on their holy mission. The administration claims that this year their range is probably going to cross two crore mark.
The administration has created elaborate arrangements, as well as traffic and security arrangements, for the mammoth cultural event. SSP Sadanand Daate aforesaid throughout the Kanwar yatra significant traffic like trucks and buses wouldn't be allowed to enter the town which throughout the height days of the journey, from July twenty one to July twenty five, all the national highways to and from Haridwar would be closed for traditional traffic to produce a secure passage to the kanwarias and every one the traditional vehicle traffic would be diverted through various routes.
District justice D Sathyl Pandiyan has instructed all the involved departments to rearrange all the facilities, as well as drinkable, electricity, sanitation and medical care, to create the journey hassle-free.
After a top-ranking meeting here of the civil and therefore the police officers of the six states, as well as Uttarakhand, UP, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, through that the pilgrimge passes, it's been determined to place in place fullproof security arrangements and to line up inter-state and inter-agency cells for higher coordination and exchange of intelligence inputs.
DIG (Garhwal range) Amit Sinha privy that just about 4,000 personnel of civil police, thirteen firms of the commission, two firms of the RAF, units of diverse, somebody dogs and bomb disposal squads had been deployed on the yatra route and CCTV cameras had been put in in the least the sensitive points to stay a tab on anti-social parts.
"It has conjointly been determined that the kanwarias won't be allowed to hold trishuls, hockey sticks etc and that they also will not be allowed to suit DJs and loud speakers on their vehicles," added the DIG.
Thousands of Shiva devotees, known as kanwarias, driven by religion and effort all the vagaries of weather, can begin walking back to their destinations, carrying 'Gangajal' in decorated kanwars (bamboo structures), whereas the complete atmosphere can reverberated with their chants of 'Bum Bum Bhole' and 'Har Har'.
With this 'Gangajal' they're going to anoint Lord Shiva within the temples of their individual regions on the auspicious occasion of 'Shivratri' on July twenty five.
Last year nearly 1.75 crore kanwarias came to Haridwar on their holy mission. The administration claims that this year their range is probably going to cross two crore mark.
The administration has created elaborate arrangements, as well as traffic and security arrangements, for the mammoth cultural event. SSP Sadanand Daate aforesaid throughout the Kanwar yatra significant traffic like trucks and buses wouldn't be allowed to enter the town which throughout the height days of the journey, from July twenty one to July twenty five, all the national highways to and from Haridwar would be closed for traditional traffic to produce a secure passage to the kanwarias and every one the traditional vehicle traffic would be diverted through various routes.
District justice D Sathyl Pandiyan has instructed all the involved departments to rearrange all the facilities, as well as drinkable, electricity, sanitation and medical care, to create the journey hassle-free.
After a top-ranking meeting here of the civil and therefore the police officers of the six states, as well as Uttarakhand, UP, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, through that the pilgrimge passes, it's been determined to place in place fullproof security arrangements and to line up inter-state and inter-agency cells for higher coordination and exchange of intelligence inputs.
DIG (Garhwal range) Amit Sinha privy that just about 4,000 personnel of civil police, thirteen firms of the commission, two firms of the RAF, units of diverse, somebody dogs and bomb disposal squads had been deployed on the yatra route and CCTV cameras had been put in in the least the sensitive points to stay a tab on anti-social parts."It has conjointly been determined that the kanwarias won't be allowed to hold trishuls, hockey sticks etc and that they also will not be allowed to suit DJs and loud speakers on their vehicles," added the DIG.