SO appointed for Varanasi’s first tourist police stn

Varanasi: First tourist police station (TPS) of the city came into existence with the appointment of sub-inspector Sanjay Tripathi as its station officer on Thursday. Earlier, the only tourist police station of the state existed in Agra.
SSP Prabhakar Chawdhary also announced the appointment of Dhananjay Kumar Pandey as the first SO of newly created Lalpur-Pandeypur police station on the occasion. Both these police stations were sanctioned by chief minister Yogi Adityanath in November and December 2019. Construction of the buildings of these two police stations will be started soon.
The SSP said that the newly appointed SOs will monitor construction of the proposed buildings of their police stations. A budget of Rs seven crore has been sanctioned for the construction of TPS building whiuch will come up on the campus of tourism department in Sarnath, he said. The building of Lalpur-Pandeypur police station will be constructed on the land of Pahadia police outpost, said the officials adding that the budget of the building will become clear after the agency concerned submits an estimate.
On November 29, 2019, Yogi government had sanctioned two tourist police stations each in Gorakhpur and Varanasi, for extending better facilities to national and international tourists and pilgrims apart from ensuring their safety.
Additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi, who disclosed the CM’s decision in November, had visited Varanasi on December 21, 2019 and announced the sanctioning of Lalpur-Pandeypur police station by dividing the area of jurisdiction of Cantonment police station. He also directed the officials concerned to act promptly for setting up the new police stations in accordance with the prescribed norms.
A staff of 70 constables and seven inspectors and sub-inspectors has been sanctioned for the TPS, which will be arranged soon, said the SSP adding that similar, provision will be followed for the Lalpur-Pandeypur police station.