Overview

• Director General of Police Anurag Dhankar said 7,750 personnel are being deployed statewide for the festival period.
• Joint patrols with the Border Security Force have been planned along Tripura’s 856-km Bangladesh frontier, with strategy meetings citing the situation in Bangladesh and a zero illegal immigration directive.
• Roughly 300–320 additional CCTV cameras and watchtowers are being positioned at high-footfall sites, and organisers have been urged to install their own cameras for crowd tracking.
• Operational measures include 241 police assistance booths, 215 hired vehicles for mobile patrols, wireless handsets for uninterrupted communication, and traffic diversions with nightly no-entry zones from 5 pm to 1 am.
• Tripura State Rifles, women and plainclothes officers, sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units are on duty, the public has been asked to use emergency number 112 and follow noise limits, and nearly 3,000 community pujas are expected with West Tripura hosting the most.