Chittagong Buresau :
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have started taking preparations to make full security arrangement to ensure smooth holding of upcoming Durga Puja, the major religious festival of the Hindu community.
CMP Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mondol on Thursday assured the leaders of
Chittagong City Puja Udjapon Parisad (CCPUP) that full security at the places of Durga puja in the city would be ensured.
He said this while exchanging views with the leaders of CCPUP at CMP conference room last afternoon.
“A total of 229 Puja Mondops will be set up by the Hindhu Community in the city this year.
The authority selected 105 Puja Mondops as very important, and rest marked as important and general Puja Mondops,” CMP commissioner informed the CCPUP leaders.
The authority will deploy 10 members of the law enforcers at very
important Puja Mondops, six members at important and four members police and Ansars at general puja mondops, Jalil said. The authority will also set up a control room, he added.
Meanwhile, necessary preparations for Durga Puja are at the final stage in the city and 14 upazilas of the district. This year all-time record number of idols of Goddess Durga will be erected, CCPUP leaders said.
The artisans are passing their busiest time at this peak hour to give finishing touches to the idols of Goddess Durga with their artistic creativity and colours, they added.
Tens of hundreds of Hindu community people of all ages are rushing to the markets and purchasing Puja clothes to celebrate their reatest religious festival with great enthusiasm, religious fervor and gaiety.
Besides, the intelligence agencies were asked to intensify their round- the- clock vigilance in and around the city. They were asked to collect information about the suspected trouble- makers or offenders so that police could take all sorts of preventive measures to avert any incident during the festival time.
The Commissioner said the overall law and order in the port city marked a significant improvement during the past eight months as the rate of different criminal acts came down.
In this context, he said the CMP continued conducting anti-crime and narcotics control drives to keep the city free from illegal -drug trading, gambling, terrorism and anti-social activities.
Talking to Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of police said district police has also started taking preparations for full security arrangement to ensure smooth holding of Durga Puja in different parts of the district.
CMP sources said, they will engage 2500 police personnel at 121 points all over Chittagong and would set up 32 check posts in different places in the metropolis for the purpose.
Chittagong district police will also keep ready over 2400 police personal at important places including upazila headquarters under its jurisdictions on this occasion, district police officials said.
The four-day festival will begin on Oct 19 and end on October 22 when the Hindu communities jointly celebrate Nobomi and Bijoya Dashami on same day through the immersion of idols of Goddess Durga with festivity and religious fervor.
Additional Commissioner A K M Shahidul Rahman, and Dev Das Bhatachargee, CCPUP leaders Biddyalal Shill, Chandon Talukdar among others representatives of different law enforcing agencies attended the view exchanging meeting.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have started taking preparations to make full security arrangement to ensure smooth holding of upcoming Durga Puja, the major religious festival of the Hindu community.
CMP Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mondol on Thursday assured the leaders of
Chittagong City Puja Udjapon Parisad (CCPUP) that full security at the places of Durga puja in the city would be ensured.
He said this while exchanging views with the leaders of CCPUP at CMP conference room last afternoon.
“A total of 229 Puja Mondops will be set up by the Hindhu Community in the city this year.
The authority selected 105 Puja Mondops as very important, and rest marked as important and general Puja Mondops,” CMP commissioner informed the CCPUP leaders.
The authority will deploy 10 members of the law enforcers at very
important Puja Mondops, six members at important and four members police and Ansars at general puja mondops, Jalil said. The authority will also set up a control room, he added.
Meanwhile, necessary preparations for Durga Puja are at the final stage in the city and 14 upazilas of the district. This year all-time record number of idols of Goddess Durga will be erected, CCPUP leaders said.
The artisans are passing their busiest time at this peak hour to give finishing touches to the idols of Goddess Durga with their artistic creativity and colours, they added.
Tens of hundreds of Hindu community people of all ages are rushing to the markets and purchasing Puja clothes to celebrate their reatest religious festival with great enthusiasm, religious fervor and gaiety.
Besides, the intelligence agencies were asked to intensify their round- the- clock vigilance in and around the city. They were asked to collect information about the suspected trouble- makers or offenders so that police could take all sorts of preventive measures to avert any incident during the festival time.
The Commissioner said the overall law and order in the port city marked a significant improvement during the past eight months as the rate of different criminal acts came down.
In this context, he said the CMP continued conducting anti-crime and narcotics control drives to keep the city free from illegal -drug trading, gambling, terrorism and anti-social activities.
Talking to Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of police said district police has also started taking preparations for full security arrangement to ensure smooth holding of Durga Puja in different parts of the district.
CMP sources said, they will engage 2500 police personnel at 121 points all over Chittagong and would set up 32 check posts in different places in the metropolis for the purpose.
Chittagong district police will also keep ready over 2400 police personal at important places including upazila headquarters under its jurisdictions on this occasion, district police officials said.
The four-day festival will begin on Oct 19 and end on October 22 when the Hindu communities jointly celebrate Nobomi and Bijoya Dashami on same day through the immersion of idols of Goddess Durga with festivity and religious fervor.
Additional Commissioner A K M Shahidul Rahman, and Dev Das Bhatachargee, CCPUP leaders Biddyalal Shill, Chandon Talukdar among others representatives of different law enforcing agencies attended the view exchanging meeting.
