Watchtowers installed to monitor festival crowds in Erode

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A watchtower erected astatine  Manikoondu to show   assemblage  question   for Deepavali successful  Erode successful  Tamil Nadu connected  Wednesday.

A watchtower erected astatine Manikoondu to show assemblage question for Deepavali successful Erode successful Tamil Nadu connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: GOVARTHAN M.

With lone 4 days near for Deepavali, and shoppers thronging the city’s bazaar streets, the district police have acceptable up watchtowers at cardinal locations successful Erode and crossed the territory to show assemblage question and forestall crimes.

Major textile and jewellery showrooms, commercialized establishments, and shops selling household appliances are concentrated in Panneerselvam Park, R.K.V. Road, Gandhiji Road, Mettur Road, Sathy Road, Nethaji Road, Cauvery Road, Perundurai Road, Meenatchi Sundaranar Road, and Manikoondu. These areas person been witnessing dense footfall implicit the past week arsenic the festival buying play reaches its peak.

To heighten nationalist safety, watchtowers person been installed successful large marketplace areas for continuous monitoring. Each operation is equipped with a public code system, enabling constabulary unit to contented announcements, caution the public, and stock important information.

In summation to surveillance through CCTV cameras, constabulary unit stationed connected the towers are informing shoppers about pickpockets and bag-snatchers, urging them to safeguard their belongings and grip currency carefully.

With crowds expected to turn further successful the coming days, the constabulary have intensified patrolling and stepped up monitoring successful each large buying streets. Similar watchtowers and information arrangements person besides been acceptable up in Gobichettipalayam, Sathyamangalam, Bhavani, and Perundurai.

Published - October 15, 2025 06:27 p.m. IST

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