Bats for composite fire safety plan of every department to deal with any sort of untoward situation
By Amrit Pal Brar
Kapurthala, July 31:
Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala DPS Kharbanda today said that the district administration would make elaborate arrangements for any sort of crisis management during the upcoming 550th parkash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji at Sultanpur Lodhi.
Presiding over a meeting here at the District Administrative Complex, the Deputy Commissioner, accompanied by Additional Deputy Commissioner Rahul Chaba, said that foolproof arrangements for dealing with any sort of emergency situation would be made during the upcoming mega event in which more than 15 lakh pilgrims were expected to take part.
He said the administration was duty bound to ensure the safety of the pilgrims coming for paying obeisance at the holy city. Kharbanda said that no laxity of any sort would be accepted during the mega event.
Reviewing fire safety arrangements for the event, the Deputy Commissioner said that a complete fire safety plan would be prepared to deal with untoward situation.
He said that fire hydrants would install within the three tented cities being erected for the pilgrims.
Kharbanda said that apart from tented city fire hydrants within and outside the MC limits of holy city would be installed by the Water Supply and Sanitation department and the Sewerage Board for which locations were being identified.
The Deputy Commissioner further said that apart from it fire tenders would be deployed at the key locations. He asked the Fire department to make the requisite arrangements for installing fire extinguishers, sand buckets, deployment of man force, fire suits, blankets and others during the mega event to ensure fire prevention and fire administration during the event.
Kharbanda said that the fire safety plan would be a composite plan which would incorporate inputs of every department along with evacuation plan to deal with any sort of situation.
On the occasion Sub Divisional Magistrate Navneet Kaur Bal, Executive Engineer PWD Varinder Kumar, Deputy Director Local Government Paramjit Singh and others were also present.
