Ahmedabad will witness 103 rath yatras - police security goes hi-tech

On Wednesday, Ahmadabad will witness two festivals - one is a Hindu festival namely the second day of the Indian month of Ashadha. The other is the Muslim festival namely Ramzan Eid. The city police have, therefore, made special preparations to oversee the 103 rath yatras and 46 minor shobha yatras in the state.
The entire police machinery will be roped in to cover engaged in this massive exercise which is perceived as the high point of policing during the year.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 5 July 2016.

Ahmedabad is the city where the biggest Rath Yatra of Gujarat is held. And, in order to ensure tight security, the state police have gone high tech. They have installed 300 additional cameras covering the entire route. Of these, 80 are high-resolution ones and those at Shahpur - where the procession reaches in the evening hours - will have night-vision.
Moving cameras near the three chariots will have internet connectivity to enable officers to access their feed through IP addresses. Moreover, in all the major cities, complete routes have been charted with Netra quadracopters of the state police. This has been done to identify obstacles and points from where the procession can be supervised to understand the traffic flow.


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