STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: The 29th Police Public Mela will be held on 24th September 2017 at Summer Capital Srinagar.
This was revealed at a senior police officers meeting, chaired by DGP Dr S.P Vaid here at Police Headquarters on Wednesday.
The DGP impressed upon the heads of different wings of police to ensure greater participation of public by making innovations and suitable, appropriate changes in layout/ presentation and by increasing the stalls and amusement points on the Mela day. He directed the organisers and chairmen of different committees to make hassle free arrangements for the different events in connection with the organising of this hugely popular Mela. He impressed upon the officers to liaise with the organisation and departments including Khidmat Centres for this. He also sought suggestions with regard to making the coupons available on line.
AIG (Welfare) PHQ Dr. Haseeb Mughal gave a detailed presentation regarding the Mela and informed the meeting that a record number of 7,847 prizes are up for grabs in the Mela which include twenty cars, seven scooties, seven motorcycles, seven laptops, seven LEDs, seven refrigerators, seven tabs, seven smart phones and thousands of cash prizes. Besides the draw lots, which is main attraction of the Mela, Police Wives Welfare Association is organising various events which include children competition and amusement items for them.
The meeting was attended by ADsGP, V.K Singh, L Mohanti, A.K Choudhary, IsGP S.J.M Gillani, A.G Mir, Alok Puri, Muneer Ahmad Khan, Sunil Kumar, Danesh Rana, Jagjit Kumar, M.A Ganaie, J.P Singh, Alok Kumar, Ahfadul Mujtaba, DIG Ghulam Hassan Bhat and Director Telecom Hilal Ahmad.
