Varanasi, Police Commissioner, Commissionerate, Varanasi, Mohit Agarwal, and District Magistrate, Varanasi, Satyendra Kumar, conducted a site inspection of the security and arrangements at the Maa Annapurna Temple and provided necessary guidelines to the concerned officials for robust security arrangements and easy darshan. The temple's doors will be opened for five days, from 6.11.2026 to 10.11.2026, for darshan of the golden form of Maa Annapurna. During this period, devotees will be able to visit the temple daily from 5:00 am to 11:15 pm. In view of the expected large crowd of devotees, the Police Commissioner and District Magistrate conducted a site inspection of the Maa Annapurna Temple and reviewed security, crowd management, and facilities for devotees. During this, suggestions were obtained regarding security and darshan arrangements by interacting with the Mahant of the temple, Shankarpuri Maharaj. Emphasis was laid on maintaining better coordination between the police and the temple management. To make the security arrangements in the temple premises and surrounding areas effective, instructions were given to maintain continuous surveillance from the control room through adequate number of CCTV cameras and to monitor the crowd activities and pressure through drone cameras. Special emphasis was laid on ensuring immediate and effective action in any unusual situation. In view of the safety of the devotees, after inspecting the duty points, the deployed police force was instructed to perform their duties with full vigilance and sensitivity, ensure effective compliance of the single lane system and take immediate action on any suspicious activity. The policemen on duty were instructed to address the devotees as Sir and Madam and to behave politely and cooperatively with them. To provide necessary assistance to the elderly, disabled and children, and to ensure prompt assistance in any emergency. Instructions were given to further strengthen the security arrangements in the temple premises and surrounding areas by inspecting the barricading, parking and the routes designated for the movement of devotees. Special monitoring was done on the entry and exit routes to control the crowd pressure. Instructions were given to ensure that unnecessary crowds do not gather and additional police force should be deployed if required. Giving top priority to women's safety, adequate women police force should be deployed at sensitive places. Instructions were given to keep an active presence of women police personnel in plain clothes and to keep a constant vigil on suspicious persons and activities through the Intelligence Unit. Instructions were given to keep a special eye on anti-social elements, pickpockets and those harassing devotees in the temple premises and surrounding areas and to take immediate and effective action against such elements. Instructions were given to keep a dialogue with the traders and shopkeepers and to keep the roads and lanes around the temple encroachment-free and not to spread the goods of the shops on the road. The concerned officers were instructed to continuously monitor and regularly review the security and traffic arrangements during the darshan period. All the officers and employees should discharge their duties with utmost caution and in coordination with each other so that the devotees can have easy and well-organized darshan in a safe environment. Today on 05.11.2026, Police Commissioner, Varanasi Commissionerate Mohit Agarwal and District Magistrate, Varanasi Satyendra Kumar conducted a site inspection of Maa Annapurna Temple and inspected the security, crowd management, barricading, parking and movement of devotees in the temple premises and surrounding areas. The arrangements were reviewed. During this, discussions were held with Mahant Shankarpuri Maharaj Ji regarding providing easy and safe darshan to the devotees and emphasis was laid on maintaining better coordination between the police and the temple management. The officers were instructed to keep a constant vigil on the entry and exit routes, ensure effective compliance of the single lane system and deploy additional police force as required to control the crowd pressure. In view of women's safety, the deployment of women police personnel at sensitive places and increase surveillance in plain clothes and ensure effective action against suspicious persons and pickpockets was asked. The traders were asked to be contacted and asked to install CCTV cameras, maintain encroachment-free arrangements and be prepared to deal with emergency situations. The police personnel were also instructed to behave politely with the devotees and provide necessary assistance to the elderly, women, disabled persons and children. During this, Additional Police Commissioner Law and Order and Headquarters Shivhari Meena, Deputy Commissioner of Police Kashi Zone Gaurav Bansal, Deputy Commissioner of Police Traffic Anil Kumar, concerned Assistant Police Commissioner and Station Incharge along with other police force were present.