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PANDAL-HOPPER'SALMANAC 

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Staff Reporter Published 03.10.00, 12:00 AM
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.'  
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