We often see the crowds overflowing the road with no access to rescue teams if some mishap occurs. You can visualise the Rathyatra in Puri, Ganesh procession in Mumbai or many such ceremonies in various parts of country. Eventhough police claim to have proper traffic control and security and rescue readiness, it becomes physically impossible to reach the spot for anybody leave apart the police vehicles, firefighting vans or ambulence. The result is high number of casualties just by stampade.
Proper crowd control and management is necessary to provide some discipline for the crowd. A small strip of road along the length must be kept empty by raising barricades for easy deployment of rescue teams. Eventhough road width for procession or congragation is somewhat reduced, it is essential for protection of life of many people which may loose their lives only due to unruly mob.
Police and medical teams should be located on all crossroads with necessary vehicles and other facilities.
A national debate with brain storming sessions and people participation should be initialised to combat terrorism.
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