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With conscionable hours to spell for the Makaravilakku festival astatine Sabarimala, the elevation temple and its surroundings are afloat geared up to person the surge of pilgrims.
According to K. Jayakumar, Travancore Devaswom Board president, astir 1 lakh pilgrims are presently camping astatine the Sannidhanam and adjacent areas, adjacent arsenic devotees proceed to get via the Erumely wood route. The constabulary person been placed connected precocious alert to negociate the dense rush.
Strict restrictions person been imposed connected viewing the Makarajyothi from the Thirumuttam and flyovers. Only pilgrims issued peculiar photograph individuality passes by the TDB volition beryllium allowed to stay astatine these locations, and the passes are non-transferable nether immoderate circumstances.
Pilgrims person been asked not to assemblage the instrumentality routes aft the Makarajyothi darshan, with further KSRTC buses being deployed astatine Pampa to facilitate a creaseless return, Mr. Jayakumar said.
A broad reappraisal of this pilgrimage play and readying for the adjacent yearly pilgrimage volition beryllium undertaken astatine a gathering of each departments acrophobic scheduled for February 6.
On the information front, astir 2,000 constabulary unit person been deployed crossed the pilgrimage zone. The Health section has stationed astir 50 doctors, including specialists, on with supporting staff, astatine hospitals successful Sannidhanam, Pampa, Neelimala, Appachimedu, Charalmedu and Nilackal. A reserve database of doctors has besides been drawn up to guarantee uninterrupted exigency care.
Medical preparedness has been further strengthened with the deployment of 19 further ambulances, taking the full to 46. Of these, 14 ambulances volition run astatine assorted Makarajyothi viewing points, portion 5 volition beryllium stationed astatine Pampa and Nilackal. Seventeen exigency aesculapian assistance centres person besides been acceptable up on the trekking way from Pampa to the Sannidhanam. A 24-hour power country is functioning to coordinate stretcher and ambulance services.
Meanwhile, hostility flared astatine Erumely connected Tuesday aft the constabulary stopped vehicles bound for Sabarimala from 1.30 p.m. onwards owed to overcrowding. The determination triggered protests by pilgrims, galore of them from different States, who took to the roads, staged a sit-in and raised slogans against the restrictions.
