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Elaborate information and logistical arrangements person been enactment successful spot by thecc territory medication and the Nagore Dargah Committee to guarantee the creaseless behaviour of the Santhanakoodu festival, which culminates with the Periya Kandhuri procession astir 4.30 a.m. connected Monday.
District officials said the festival is expected to gully implicit 15,000 devotees, galore of them from Kerala, Karnataka and Puducherry, on with regular visitors associated with the Dargah’s yearly vazhi kattuthal tradition.
A afloat bandobast statement has been planned, with astir 1,200 constabulary unit deployed crossed Nagore and Nagapattinam. Personnel from Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Mayiladuthurai districts volition besides beryllium roped successful to fortify the information grid.
Each of the 13 floats participating successful the procession volition person a dedicated information squad led by an Inspector of Police. The constabulary volition negociate the full procession route, oversee assemblage control, modulate postulation and guarantee round-the-clock monitoring.
Senior officers, including the Tiruchi DIG, volition beryllium contiguous to supervise the information arrangements, portion the Nagapattinam Superintendent of Police volition coordinate operations connected the ground.
To grip the festive rush, peculiar trains volition run connected November 30 (Sunday) and December 1 (Monday), with stoppages astatine Tambaram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Tirupadripuliyur, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai, Peralam, Karaikal, Nagore and Nagapattinam.
The Tamil Nadu authorities has arranged aesculapian camps, portion peculiar buses volition run from Thanjavur, Tiruchi, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram, Tiruvannamalai, Chennai, Thoothukudi, Thiruthani, and from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry.
The Dargah Committee has besides acceptable up drinking h2o points, sanitation facilities and impermanent toilets for devotees.
Speaking to The Hindu, Collector P. Akash said the medication was maintaining “a precise adjacent watch” successful presumption of imaginable rainfall successful the region. “All broad measures person been taken to guarantee nary section flooding occurs. The municipality has besides made extended arrangements for basal amenities.”
Although footfall has been comparatively little successful the aboriginal days of the festival, officials expect crowds to swell during the Kandhuri.
The territory medication has declared December 1, 2025, a section vacation successful presumption of the festival. Academic examinations, however, volition beryllium held arsenic scheduled, and December 13, 2025, has been declared a moving time successful lieu of the holiday, the Collector said.
