Rajkot: The second day of the five-day ongoing fair ‘Goras Lok Mela’ saw a crackdown from the officials of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) health department who destroyed 1,045 kg of inedible food items on Sunday.“We swooped down on stalls selling stale food items and destroyed boiled potatoes, rotten tomatoes and other vegetables and stale rice and breads. Every year, the annual five-day fair of Lok Mela attracts four to five lakh visitors every day, and on the festival of Janmashtami, about eight lakh visitors come to the fair.Meanwhile, in order to maintain law and order at the fair, Rajkot police have deployed about 3,000 cops. There are also metal detectors installed at the entrance points. That apart, we also seized 328 litre of adulterated syrup meant to be used in ice candy and juice,” said a senior RMC health official.Goras Lok Mela, which began on Saturday, is scheduled to be held till September 5 at Race Course Ring Road in Rajkot. There are three deputy commissioner of police, 10 assistant commissioner of police, 37 police inspectors, 112 sub-inspectors, four companies from state reserve police, 500 home guards and gram rakshak dal and 2,000 constables including women constables deployed at the fair.Besides this, there are 20 CCTV cameras installed at various places in the fair including entrance points which have links to the police control room.
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