AS DEVOTEES returned to railway and bus stations after the second shahi snan Monday night, a younger RSS employee in his conventional shakha uniform stood at Post Office Crossing in Haridwar, serving to out with instructions – in addition to gently nudging them to put on the masks correctly. These are Covid instances and you need to be cautious with the masks, he reminded a batch of kids, as he gave instructions to the station.
Ashish Chaudhary and one other RSS employee, Tarun Sharma, each in early 20s, have been working in a 12-hour shift – 8 pm to eight am – since April 7, aiding personnel of central forces and native police in crowd and site visitors administration at their assigned location.
Chaudhary and Sharma are among the many 1,553 RSS volunteers who’ve been appointed as Special Police Officers (SPOs) by Uttarakhand Police for this 12 months’s Kumbh pageant – the primary time ever. While 1,053 RSS volunteers are working within the discipline, the remainder are back-up power.
The police have issued them id playing cards, a cap and a jacket.
The police have issued them id playing cards, a cap and a jacket.(Express Photo)
Kumbh Mela Deputy SP Birendra Prasad Dabral stated RSS volunteers helped out throughout Kumbh previously as properly however that is the primary time they’ve been issued id playing cards of SPOs. “They are doing well in traffic and crowd management,” stated Dabral.
He stated numerous different social organisations, together with Congress Seva Dal, have additionally been roped in as SPOs for this 12 months’s Kumbh.
RSS Uttarakhand Prant Sharirik Pramukh Sunil stated the method was initiated by Kumbh Mela IG Sanjay Gunjyal. In March, Gunjyal obtained in contact with the RSS, asking for volunteers to work as SPOs in Kumbh Mela, stated Sunil.
After this, he stated, he wrote to all district RSS items to supply particulars of volunteers, aged between 18 and 50, who had been to work in Kumbh. “Meetings were then held with IG Gunjyal. Later, two additional SPs in different sessions briefed our selected volunteers about their role as SPOs. There are more than 1,500 SPOs from the RSS this year,” stated Sunil, including that this was the primary time RSS volunteers had been working as SPOs.
RSS Uttarakhand Prant Sharirik Pramukh Sunil stated the method was initiated by Kumbh Mela IG Sanjay Gunjyal.(Express Photo)
He stated the SPOs from the RSS is not going to be paid as a result of they’re doing social service.
These volunteers are working in shifts in Haridwar metropolis, ghats, railway stations, crossing and diversion factors and district borders of Rishikesh, Tehri, Pauri and UP borders. At least six RSS volunteers are working at every location.
Jitin Vedi, an RSS volunteer from Kotdwar, who’s deployed at Devpura Chowk, stated his position is to politely take care of devotees whereas managing crowds. “Police men often get aggressive when a devotee starts shouting or insists on entering a restricted area. But we as trained workers speak to these devotees politely and explain to them the route plan and purpose of diversions,” he stated.
The Kumbh concludes on April 30.