AHMEDABAD: Police commissioner Sanjay Srivastava on Thursday said everyone participating in the Rath Yatra on July 12 will have to follow Covid guidelines and maintain social distancing.
To restrict movement and avoid crowding, city police have decided to impose curfew in the areas under the jurisdiction of eight police stations: Gaekwad Haveli, Shaherkotda, Karanj, Kalupur, Madhavpura, Dariapur, Khadia and Shahpur.
The curfew will be in force between 7am and 2pm on July 12 in areas under these police stations.
These areas will be barricaded so no one can enter. Devotees have been asked to glimpse Lord Jagannath, Lord Balbhadra and Goddess Subhadra from their television sets and to avoid coming to the route of the Rath Yatra. There will be three-layered bandobast on the route, with around 20,000 police personnel apart from Home Guard jawans and paramilitary personnel deployed.
