Religious places not to open today in city

Kanpur: The religious places of the city will not open from Monday because the leaders of all religions have expressed their inability to control the crowd of devotees.
The religious leaders at a meeting with the district administration said that as a large number of devotees would be thronging temples, mosques, churches and gurudwaras opening after two-and- a-half months, it would be difficult to manage such a big crowd.
They said that opening of religious places should be deferred for some more time because it would be very difficult to check sanitization of religious places, hand washing and social distancing. Moreover, the presence of an infected person might cause havoc, they added.
Later, it was unanimously decided to suspend opening of religious places till June 10, and thereafter the matter would be discussed again in the next meeting.
ey said in the meantime they would meet members of their respective communities and then convene meetings as per the government guidelines regarding opening of religious places. Till then all religious places should remain closed.
Before opening the religious places, the religious leaders will have to fill a proforma. They assured the authorities that they would comply with the Covid-19 protocol whenever religious places opened.
District magistrate Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari , ADM (City) Vivek Kumar Srivastava, DIG/SSP Anant Deo and SPs (East and west) represented the government while priests and preachers of all religions were from the other side.
It may be mentioned that under unlock 1.0, the state government had issued guidelines to open religious places all over the state from June 8.