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App to guide devotees to Medaram Jatara
The biennial Medaram Sammakka Saralamma Jatara could possibly be a smooth affair this year for those travelling to Medaram from all over the State. The district rural police are drawing up big plans to assist the devotees embarking on the pilgrimage in their own vehicles from the state capital and other places by employing high-tech means.
Warangal: The biennial Medaram Sammakka Saralamma Jatara could possibly be a smooth affair this year for those travelling to Medaram from all over the State.
The district rural police are drawing up big plans to assist the devotees embarking on the pilgrimage in their own vehicles from the state capital and other places by employing high-tech means.
The police are in the process of developing a Mobile App to aid devotees to reach the jatara venue without any hassles.
The App is meant for devotees intend to reach Medaram using their private vehicles, which is a common practice with majority of those attending the jatara.
“We have initiated the process of developing the App and it is at conceptual stage,” rural superintendent of police Ambar Kihor Jha informed The Hans India in here on Monday.
Many a times the devotees get confused on how to reach the place. Efforts are being made to make the App more user-friendly and to incorporate all possible details on the route map, parking lots, entry and exit points and how to reach the ‘Gaddelu’ (Altar) at which the deities Sammakka Saralamma would be installed during Jatara. The information technology wing of the district police along with some volunteers engaged in gathering feedback on contents and features needed to be embedded while developing the App.
The suggestions of experts in traffic control are also being taken, the SP explained. It is planned to release the App by January 26 after evaluating its performance. Further, the district police are also planning to expand the range of mounted closed circuit television cameras (CCTVs) at Medaram. Last year the CCTVs are confined to about 200 metres around ‘Gaddelu’.
“This time we intend to cover an area as wide as possible for better monitoring. We also exploring the possibilities of using drones mounted with CCTVs to monitor the flow of devotees and vehicular traffic at Medaram,” Jha revealed.
The police are also in the process of adopting some of methods employed during Godavari Pushkaralu like installing public address (PA) systems to alert the devotees and enforcing one way movement of traffic, he added.
By:James Edwin
