Gujarat Police’s flag march in Ahmedabad ahead of Rath Yatra(Video and pictures)
June 19, 2012
Ahmedabad, 19 June 2012
Gujarat Police today organized a flag march on 15 km area of Rath Yatra.
Rath Yatra is scheduled to take place on 21st of June in Ahmedabad. It will be 1.5 km long procession with 18 elephants, 103 decorated trucks, dozen plus bhajan mandlis, number of akhadas and more.
As many as 20,000 jawans from regular police, reserved police, CISF, BSF, RAF will guard the yatra.
High-tech arrangements like live video wall, SMS notification, GPS, CCTV cameras, moving cameras, bomb squads are made to maintain law and order during Rath Yatra which passes through half a dozen sensitive Muslim majority areas.
Click here to read more on Rath Yatra security this year.
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