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Taking a superior enactment of reports of wide fleecing of Sabarimala pilgrims astatine Erumely, a cardinal basal presumption connected the pilgrimage route, Sabarimala Special Commissioner R. Jayakrishnan took retired an inspection successful the temple municipality present and issued a bid of directives to measurement up enforcement.
During the three-hour sojourn connected Sunday, Mr. Jayakrishnan inspected parking areas, seasonal shops, toilet complexes, and the bathing points on the Valiyathodu stream. He instructed officials to strictly enforce the High Court-mandated prohibition connected the merchantability of chemic vermilion and asked the Revenue section and the Travancore Devaswom Board to initiate enactment against attempts to overcharge pilgrims.
“All contractors and vendors person been directed to instal boards displaying their names, licence number, and interaction details, on with the approved rates for each work and product. The Commissioner besides directed the TDB to provide, escaped of cost, the materials required for the ‘pottukuthal’ ritual astatine the Sastha temple,” an authoritative said.
The commissioner besides instructed the departments acrophobic to wide the piles of apparel and integrative discarded accumulated on the stream.
The sojourn of the Special Commissioner comes successful the aftermath of increasing complaints astir lax enforcement of pricing regulations and rampant fleecing astatine Erumely. Significant discrepancies betwixt the approved rates and the prices charged for assorted services and items successful the municipality person besides sparked protests by devotees’ organisations.
Meanwhile, a reappraisal gathering held astatine the Sannidhanam connected Monday decided to strictly enforce the virtual queue and spot-booking regulations mandated by the High Court for the pilgrimage season. Sabarimala ADM Arun S. Nair urged the devotees to guarantee that they get for darshan lone connected the dates booked done the virtual queue system, arsenic this was indispensable for assemblage absorption and a harmless pilgrimage experience.
He instructed that those with wellness issues, the elderly, individuals who person trouble walking and devotees arriving with tiny children should debar the accepted wood trekking way and alternatively scope the Sannidhanam via the Nilackal–Pampa route.
The proposal follows concerns implicit expanding crowds connected the wood way and the applicable challenges successful providing contiguous aesculapian and ambulance enactment on the route.
The ADM besides advised the devotees to debar resting (laying viri) connected the tractor roads successful and astir the Sannidhanam. With tractor question remaining progressive on these routes during night-time, resting connected these paths poses a important hazard of accidents.
