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Security plan taken for Durga Puja

Staff Correspondent
The government has chalked out comprehensive security measures to check any untoward incidents during the Durga Puja, the biggest Hindu festival, in thesecond week of October.
As the number of puja mandaps increased by about 2,000 from last year's 19,700. thehome ministry has opened a monitoring cell to receive security-related complaints round the clock from across the country. Rab and police have also opened separate monitoring cells to receive complaints.
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Beside 8,000 Rab men, Bangladesh Rilles, police and ansar members will also work in 64 districts to ensure lawandorder.
"The security arrangement has been heightened this year as the number of puja mandaps has increased by one to two thousand." State Minister for Home Affairs, Lutfozzaman Babar, told reporters yesterday, emerging out of an inter-ministerial meeting on law and order duringthepuja.
Ran will reach each district before the programme begins and work in both uniform and plainclothes, he said.
"We've emphasised community involvement in the security arrangement to solve the problem at local levels," the state minister said, adding that government officials will hold meetings with focal leaders-atdistricr and thana levels once in a week to workout solutions to their problems.
He informed journalists that leaders of Oikya Parishad and Oikya Front of the Hindu community have aLsosetupamonitoringcelL
Babar asked Hindu leaders to cooperate with lawenforcers, and also asked them to strengthen their own security system.
The ministry of religious affairs, meanwhile, asked the Islamic Foundation to involve imams to sit with Hindu community leaders to work out a plan for coordination to avoid any misunderstandings over the beatingof drums during Ramadan.
The meeting did no t ban beating of drums during iftar hours or prayers, but asked Hindu leaders to lower the soundduringtheperiodoftime.
The Hindu community leaders, during the meeting, demanded a two-day vacation instead of the existing one-day to celebrate the puja.
'The state minister has assured them that he will take the matter to the authorities concerned," said a source present at the meeting
The leaders also demanded unhampered electricity and water supply and security at puja mandaps and connecting roads during the celebration.
The leaders also demanded illuminating the government buildings and allocating more time for telecasting special programmes on the radio and
television during the puja. The meeting was told that at least 144 mandaps will bebuiltinthecapital
The Hindu community leaders demanded to shift Ramrur Kali Mandir to an adjacent place as they are facing problemsat the axis tingplace.
Leaders of the Hindu community expressed their satisfaction over the security steps. "We're happy with the government's steps," CR Dutt, president of Hindu Bouddha Oikya Parishad, said while talking to reporters after yesterday's meeting
leaders of Bangladesh Puja Utsab Parishad and Mahanagr Sarbojonin Puja Utsab Committee also took part in the meeting participated, among others, by state minister for water resources advocate Goutam Chakrabarti, secretaries of home and religious affairs ministry, inspector general of police, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, and Rab directorgeneral.