Andhra Pradesh likely to come out with guidelines for the crowd management in major temples

SRIKAKULAM/VIZIANAGARAM:

The Andhra Pradesh authorities is expected to travel retired with caller guidelines for the assemblage absorption successful temples managed by some Endowments section and autarkic trusts successful the backdrop of stampede and partition illness incidents successful Tirupati, Simhachalam, Kasibugga of Srikakulam district and different places. Minister for Endowments Anam Ramanarayana Reddy indicated that the authorities was precise keen to guarantee hassle escaped darshan and information of the devotees. 

Mr. Ramanarayana Reddy who visited Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple of Kasibugga said that a committee with revenue, endowments and constabulary section was appointed to look into the reasons for the stampede and decease of 9 persons successful Lord Venkateswara temple connected Saturday.

Mr.Ramanarayana Reddy, Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha, Minister for Revenue Anagani Satya Prasad would clasp a high-level gathering with elder officials of the 3 departments successful Amaravati precise soon to reappraisal the information arrangements astatine each large temples.

The authorities is apt to instrumentality the suggestions from seers, trustees, retired officials of large temples earlier finalizing the argumentation for the assemblage management. Proper enactment of queue lines, exit enactment successful lawsuit of emergency, aesculapian assistance adjacent the temple premises, mechanics for speedy rescue cognition and others would beryllium included successful the recommendations. 

The government’s suggestions and recommendations mightiness payment thousands of devotees who sojourn large temples specified arsenic Pyditalli Ammavari temple of Vizianagaram, Arasavalli Sri Suryanarayana Swamy temple of Srikakulam and others which ever witnesser immense crowds connected auspicious days.

The government’s recommendations are indispensable to prevent possible stampedes and different untoward incidents astatine Arasavalli temple connected the time of Ratha Saptami when much than 3 lakh radical would connection prayers successful the Sun God temple. The devotees’ fig would spell up 30,000 per time successful Sri Pydimamba temple during Sirimanotsavam that is held successful the period of October, each year. 

Meanwhile, Opposition person successful Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council Botcha Satyanarayana asked the authorities to name a committee headed by a sitting justice alternatively of officials to find retired the nonstop reasons for the stampede successful Kasibugga temple. He alleged that the government’s casual attack was the main crushed for the incidents successful large temples successful the past 1 year.