{"id":11724,"date":"2006-08-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/24\/security-precede-mumbai-ganesha-festival\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T12:00:00","slug":"security-precede-mumbai-ganesha-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/24\/security-precede-mumbai-ganesha-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Precede Mumbai Ganesha Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.punjabkesari.com\/frmNewsDetails.aspx?uid=32090\">www.punjabkesari.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MUMBAI, INDIA, August 23, 2006: Mumbai, on high alert after the July 11 train bombings, is now preparing for its biggest festivities, the 10-day long Ganesha festival. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai Police and the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal Coordination Committee (SGMCC) have come together to put into place a special security package for the tens of thousands of temporary temples called &#8220;marquees&#8221; that come up all over the city. &#8220;This year we are taking more precautions in view of the 11\/7 bomb blasts. Of the 10,228 public marquees, some 100 are very popular and attract huge crowds. We have recommended metal detectors and close-circuit TV cameras to be installed at the entrances,&#8221; said Mumbai police commissioner A.N. Roy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To avert any possible terror strikes at the marquees, the BMC, SGMCC and the police have set up new rules this year. Visitors will have to go empty-handed. Even women devotees will not be allowed to carry purses,&#8221; said SGMCC president Pandurang Jadhav. &#8220;Also garlands to be offered to the Deities will undergo thorough checks. Devotees offering prasad will have to taste them in the presence of security personnel,&#8221; said Jadhav. Ganesha festival committees have been asked to submit detailed information of all volunteers to be engaged during the festival. &#8220;Each committee will have at least 20 volunteers, whose credentials would be verified by the local police stations,&#8221; said Roy. &#8220;We are also considering installing closed-circuit TV cameras at Dadar, Juhu, Girgaun and other beaches on September 6, the immersion day. Besides, zonal deputy commissioners of police will monitor security arrangements,&#8221; he  added.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.punjabkesari.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 23, 2006: Mumbai, on high alert after the July 11 train bombings, is now preparing for,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}