A meeting of District Officers and civil society members was today chaired by Deputy Commissioner Udhampur, Saloni Rai here in the Conference Hall of DC Office Complex, to discuss the necessary arrangements for three day historic Devika Baisakhi mela. Senior Superintendent of Police Joginder Singh; Additional Deputy Commissioner, Joginder Singh Jasrotia; Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Dr Umesh Shan; Additional SP, Baljit Singh and other district officers of different departments besides representatives of Beopar mandal and prominent citizens were present in the meeting.
During the meeting, threadbare discussions were held on arrangements related to security; safe drinking water; power supply; First-aid; sanitation and directions were issued to district heads of stakeholder departments to ensure fool-proof arrangements pertaining to their respective departments well before the start of the mela.
It was decided in the meeting that Executive Engineer PHE would ensure drinking Water arrangements while Chief Executive Officer, Municipality was asked for ensuring proper cleansing of the site. Similarly, CMO was asked to depute a team of doctors along with the ambulance during mela day for better health care services. Executive Engineer, PDD was directed to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the Mela days.
Likewise, the police department was asked to ensure adequate security arrangements at the mela site. Other issues related to cultural programmes, establishment of a control room, deployment of medical teams, deployment of magistrates and deployment of fire tenders were also discussed in the meeting.
The DC directed the district officers to work in coordination to finalize necessary arrangements. She stressed that all the necessary arrangements must be put in place well before the commencement of the mela.