Summary:
However, with enhanced monitoring and quicker response, apart from implementing the routine traffic diversions being adopted for the past few years, the Madurai city police had ensured that the traffic arrangements were smooth, barring a few hiccups in some places. He said that officers in the field were given more decision-making powers, which ensured quicker response in places that witnessed congestion. Arun Balagopalan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said that they had deployed a total of 320 traffic police personnel, including two Assistant Commissioners, for the event. “We had around seven Inspectors in the vicinity of Lord Kallazhagar’s procession,” he said. Barricades were erected in almost all the roads leading to Tallakulam and Goripalayam, the route taken by Lord Kallazhagar..