More than 1200 police personnel deployed in Mangaluru City as precautionary measure: Top-cop
Hijab verdict
Mangaluru: In the background of the Karnataka High Court’s verdict on the permissibility of wearing a Hijab in classrooms, more than 1200 police personnel have been deployed in the jurisdiction of the Mangaluru City Commissionerate as a precautionary measure, Commissioner N. Shashikumar informed.
After issuing directions to the police officials and staff regarding the deployment at Circuit House in the city, the commissioner spoke to the press.
“Senior Officials have advised regarding the precautionary measures through a video conference yesterday. Mangaluru Commissionerate holds a strength of more than 2000 police officers and staff”, he said.
“Since 9 am, more than 1200 police personnel have been busy with the deployment arrangement. The District Commissioner has already pronounced holidays for schools and colleges in the district. A prohibitory order has also been imposed amid this. Earlier, during the Covid, Hijab-Saffron shawls cases, the people and organizations of Mangaluru had cooperated in ensuring peace, law, and order in the city”, he said.
DCP Dinesh Kumar, ACPs P. A Hegde, and others were present.
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Metro services begin in Bhopal; excited residents flock to take rides, selfies
Bhopal (PTI): On the first day of the commercial run of the Metro services in Bhopal on Sunday, hundreds of residents enthusiastically took rides, expressing confidence that it will save time and provide relief from traffic jams.
An official said that the Metro’s first service began at 9 am from the AIIMS station, and by 6 pm, 5,731 people had travelled on the new mass-transit corridor.
He said that people, along with their family members, had been lining up for tickets since early morning. Several users were seen taking selfies and photos inside the Metro rakes and at stations.
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Earlier on Saturday, Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav inaugurated the Metro service by flagging off a train from Subhash Nagar station on a 7.5-kilometre stretch, called the “Priority Corridor”.
With this, Bhopal became the 26th city in the country and the second city in Madhya Pradesh, after Indore, to have the Metro service.
Rao Singh, who took a Metro ride, told PTI Videos that besides saving time and money, the new mode of transport will provide relief from traffic jams and pollution.
Another passenger, who identified himself as Chetan, said he was happy that Bhopal is now on the “Metro list”.
Office-goers will benefit a lot due to the Metro service, said a young man named Akshay.
While the estimated cost of the 30.8-km-long Bhopal Metro project is Rs 10,033 crore, a sum of Rs 2,225 crore was spent on the ‘Priority Corridor’, according to officials.
