New Delhi: After cancelling Kanwar Yatra this yr amid menace of attainable third COVID-19 wave, Uttarakhand on Thursday (July 16) determined to quarantine the Kanwariyas getting into Haridwar for 14 days regardless of the suspension.
Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar in a gathering with senior police officers directed them to determine locations in and round Haridwar the place such Kanwariyas could be stored beneath quarantine, PTI reported.
Issuing additional directions on take care of Kanwariyas getting into the state regardless of ban on Yatra this yr, Kumar requested officers to type Kanwar enforcement groups in Haridwar, Dehradun, Tehri and Pauri districts which is able to patrol the streets and implement legislation and order in the course of the interval of the banned Kanwar mela.
If a Kanwariya is seen on the highway, they need to be despatched again by a bus or another technique of transport, the director normal of police (DGP) mentioned. Kanwariyas coming by trains to Haridwar might be compelled to deboard at stations earlier than Haridwar and despatched again in buses, he added.
The police officers will even put together SOPs in session with district magistrates in view of the suspension of Yatra. IG (legislation and order) has been requested to carry a gathering in Haridwar with DIG-level officers of neighbouring states to resolve how Ganga water could be despatched in tankers to different states.
“Conferences ought to be held with Kanwar associations and committees to apprise them concerning the suspension of the yatra and a document of such conferences stored at police stations involved in order that motion could be taken in opposition to violators beneath the epidemic act,” Kumar mentioned.
The DGP asserted that shopkeepers in districts ought to be dissuaded from promoting gadgets associated to Kanwar Yatra. Whereas individuals coming to Haridwar for immersing ashes won’t be stopped, the DGP mentioned.
Throughout Hindu calendar month of ‘Saavan’ yearly, the Shiva devotees, also called Kanwariyas, fetch the holy waters of Ganga to supply on the Shiva temples. These pilgrims go to Haridwar, Gaumukh, and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Sultanganj in Bihar to fetch the waters of Ganga. This water is then supplied to Lord Shiva in temples.
That is for the second consecutive yr that the yatra was scrapped in Uttarakhand as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
In the meantime, Supreme Courtroom has taken suo motu cognisance of the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s resolution to permit the yatra from July 25 and has sought responses from the state and the Centre.
(With company inputs)
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