Elaborate security for fish medicine administration

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 6. The city police have made elaborate security arrangements for smooth administration of fish medicine at the Exhibition grounds on Friday. The medicine will be administered through 34 counters and there would be 24 counters to sell murrel fingerlings, the west zone DCP, Mr. Umesh Sharaff, told presspersons here on Wednesday.

Mr. Sharaff said over 700 officers and men would be on duty for crowd control. Ten ACPs would be monitoring the situation. In addition to the city police personnel, about 15 platoons of special police would be deployed.

The general public will be allowed entry into the Exhibition grounds through the Ajanta Gate and those who took medicine would have to leave from the Malakunta side. Those having passes would be allowed from the Gandhi Bhavan side.

Fisheries dept. counters

The Department of Fisheries would be setting up 42 counters at the venue for the supply of `Murrel' fingerlings through which the Bathina brothers would be administering the `asthma' medicine on June 8 and 9.

`We have collected enough fish for the more than three lakh patients expected to come here on the Mrugasirakarthi Day,' said Mr. D.S. Murthy, Commissioner of Fisheries, here on Wednesday.

Talking to presspersons, he said, the fish was collected from Rangareddy, Mahabubnagar, Khammam and Nalgonda districts. The fingerlings which have to be 21 days old and 2.5 inches long were being stored at the department's fish tank on the lower Tank Bund at present.

Around 250 personnel would be deployed at the fingerling dispensing counters, including eight for women, four for VIPs, two for the Army personnel and two more counters would be set up for emergency purposes.

The fish to be sold at Rs.6 a fingerling would be supplied under the aegis of the A.P. Fishermen Cooperative Federation. There was a ban on the sale of the fingerlings by private parties inside as well as outside the Exhibition Grounds.

Mr. Murthy said last year nearly 2.4 lakh people took the fish medicine and an additional 35,000 patients who were vegetarians had it with jaggery. Eleven NGO organisations would be supplying free food, water and snacks to the patients in the queue this time.

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