Daughters of Deoghar help administration in facilitating devotees

Thousands of police personnel and officers from different departments and districts have been deployed in Deoghar to help the district administration in facilitating devotees coming from across the country for Jalarpan.

 RAF, Jharkhand police and NDRF have been deployed strategically to handle the flood of devotees. Even a large number of medical and paramedical staff have also been called from different districts of the state.

 Apart from the government employees, youngsters, especially daughters of Deoghar, are also helping the local administration in large numbers. They are all students of different colleges of Deoghar. Some of them are members of NSS and NCC.

About two hundred of these students come on the route of Kanwariyas before 6 am and serve the devotees till 11 am. They help the old and exhausted devotees. They serve them water and beverages. Their duty is to take care of devotees who have been separated from their group. They bring the victims to a nearby call centre operated by the public relation department of the district.

 They also take the tired devotees to the nearest health centre to get them treated and to the temple’s patio to offer the Jalaparan in external Argha fixed outside the exit gate.

 Mayuri Gupta is the group leader deputed by Deoghar DC Manju Nath Bhajnatri and as  volunteers Manvi Kumari of Bajala College, Khushi Kumari, Soni Kumari, Choti Kumari, Chhaya Kumari, Sonam Kumari, Shilpi Anjali, S Krishna Kumar, Pragati Raj, Saurabh, Abhinav, Yuvraj, Nitesh, Satish, Vikas of Deoghar Mahavidyalaya, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Chandan Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Hansa Kumari, Uttam Mehra, Sanjit Kumar, Pritam Arya, Bhavani Kumari, Nandani Kumari, Anand Kumar Jha, Nidhi Choubey, Neha are team members along with many more.

Deployment of these youngsters was experimented in 2015 and after the gap of two years once again youngsters of the holy city have been called. Talking to lagatar24.com, Mayuri said that this is also a path to serve Lord Siva in the month of Savan.