Calcutta, Oct 3 :
Calcutta, Oct 3:
EMERGENCY
Medical assistance: 24-hour ambulance service;
emergency services (doctors, oxygen, medicine, ECG) from 11 pm to 6 am
on all puja nights by Medical Bank.
Contact numbers: 555-7852, 554-0084.
Police Helpline: Control
room numbers: 2350230, 2353024,
Traffic control room: 2350644
Lalbazar missing persons squad: 2155000, Ext: 5153
Lost and found: One lakh identity badges
for children to be distributed by police and Medical Bank volunteers through
42 police stations, booths at pandals and at Howrah and Sealdah stations.
Parents/guardians are expected to fill in names and addresses on the badges
to be worn by the kids.
Maruti vans will patrol the pandals, equipped
with first-aid kits, toys and Mickey Mouse cutouts. Kids separated from
parents/guardians will be handed over to the nearest police station. Contact
numbers: 98300- 42343 (van) and 9831062157 (Medical Bank control room).
PARKING
Calcutta Police has made special parking arrangements
for pandal-hoppers:
Samaj Sebi, Ballygunge Cultural and Samaj Sebi Park:
On Jatin Bagchi Road
Ekdalia Evergreen: In front of Ballygunge Siksha
Sadan
Southern Avenue: S.P. Mukherjee Road to Sarat Chatterjee
Avenue
Md Ali Park: Poddar Court to CIT Road, west of Rabindra
Sarani to Mahatma Gandhi Road
College Square: Eden Hospital Road to College Street,
Bankim Chatterjee Street to Amherst Street
Kaiser Street: APC Road in front of Taki School
Santosh Mitra Square: CR Avenue to Nirmal Chandra
Street and Wellington Square
Telengabagan: Biddhannagar Road
POLICE ASSISTANCE
The city police has set up 12 police assistance booths
from October 4 to October 8:
On the southern slope of Dhakuria bridge
In front of Ballygunge AC Market
At the crossing of Abdul Rasul Avenue and S.P. Mukherjee
Road
At the crossing of S.P. Mukherjee Road and Hazra
Road
At the crossing of Ramkamal Street and Karl Marx
Sarani
At the Park Circus seven-point crossing
At the Dorina crossing, Dharamtala
At the intersection of Sealdah Court Road and B.R.
Singh Hospital Road
At the Shyambazar five-point crossing
At Bankim Chatterjee Square
At the bus no. 15 stand, Ultadanga
At the crossing of Rabindra Sarani and B.K. Pal Avenue
TRANSPORT
Metro Rail
Metro Rail will run 422 special trains during
Durga Puja
On Saptami (October 4), trains will run every 10
minutes from 5 pm till 10 pm.
On Ashtami (October 5), first Nabami (October 6)
and second Nabami (October 7), the special trains will run from 5 pm to
4 am at 10- minute intervals from 5 pm to midnight and every 20 minutes
from midnight till 4 am.
On Dashami (October 8), special trains will ply from
5 pm to 8.30 pm at 15-minute intervals
Taxi
Bengal Taxi Association will run special taxis during
the Pujas in north, central and south Calcutta. Special cabs will be available
from 10 am to 4 pm against a minimum charge Rs 400 and, subsequently, Rs
100 per hour. Commuters can dial 475-3505 and 555-4049 for details.
Bus
Private buses will be available throughout the Puja
nights. However, Kalyan Bhadra, head of the association of private buses
and minibuses, said the plying of minibuses at night would depend on availability
of passengers
The following bus terminals have been shifted:
Route nos 37, 37A and 47 from Dhakuria bridge to
Prince Anwar Shah Road in front of Jay Engineering Works
Route no 240 from the crossing of Gariahat Road (South)
and Prince Anwar Shah Road to the Golf Green-Prince Anwar Shah Road crossing
Route nos L-9, S-221 from Gol Park to Vivekananda
Park
Circular Rail
From 8 am to 10.30 am, four trains will run from
Dum Dum to Prinsep Ghat. The first morning train will leave Dum Dum at
6.03 am. Three trains will run between 4.15 pm and 6 pm. The last train
will leave Prinsep Ghat at 6 pm.
Ferry
From Armenian Ghat - 2-8 pm
Chandpal Ghat- 2-9.45 pm.
Howrah Ghat-- For Bagbazar, Ahiritola, Sovabazar
and Chandpal Ghat, from 2.30 pm to 10 pm. A special service from Bauria
to Budge Budge till 2 am.
ALL-NIGHT FUEL
Mansashree Auto Craft, 182/B Acharya Prafulla Chandra
Road. Phone: 555 4049
Devi Commercial Company, P/254 CIT Scheme. Phone:
321-8146, 321 6513
Super Avenue Service Station, 80/1 Bhupen Bose Avenue.
Phone-554 6591
Baranagar Service Station, 131 BT Road. Phone - 577
3229
Car Fill, 170 Sarat Bose Road. Phone: 466 4550
Pearl Auto Service, 141 SP Mukherjee Road. Phone:
466 6050
Karar Automobiles, 22/1 E Chakraberia Road (South).
Phone: 475 2266
Camac Service Station, 2E & 2F Camac Street.
Phone:229 3901, 229-2729
Dhakuria Service Station, 41-B, Gariahat Road (South).
Phone-473-3766
COOKING GAS
The LPG service will continue on October 5 and 6
NOISE POLLUTION
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board will monitor
and receive complaints about loudspeakers at pandals crossing the permissible
decibel levels. Teams to tour the city all five days. Control room no 335-8212
WEATHER
Last but definitely not the least, the weatherman
brings fair tidings for the Puja days. Sporadic rainfall may be something
of a dampener. But there's no real fear of a heavy downpour. The Tuesday
morning shower did set alarm bells ringing, but Mihir Guha, deputy director
of the Alipore weather office, said: 'It was caused by some localised thunderclouds.'