Puri, 21 June (HS): The government and administration make preparations in their own way for the world-famous Rath Yatra of Jagannath Ji. At the same time, the world's largest social organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, also fulfils its social responsibility. Wherever there is some deficiency at the administrative level, he automatically gets involved in service work through his volunteers.

In the grand Rath Yatra that started from Jagannath Puri in Odisha on Tuesday, the workers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have taken eight types of service work into their hands. In these services, 1100 volunteers of the Sangh are working continuously in full uniform. During the Rath Yatra, in case of any emergency, a 500-metre humanitarian road has been made to take out an ambulance from the crowd. Also, in the case of fainting or getting injured due to heat, etc., people can be taken to the ambulance immediately. Apart from this, the hospital is engaged in first aid, ambulance service, stretcher service, food distribution, drinking water distribution, mobile water drinking system, lost person search, patient assistance, etc.

The volunteers of the Sangh are continuously doing service work from morning until evening. This is not the first time. Since 2005, the volunteers have done many such works in collaboration with the administration. The most important of these 8 types of services is that the administration gets cleanliness done on the Rath Yatra route for 9 days, but the volunteers of the Sangh themselves monitor it, get it done by the administration, and also do the work of cleanliness themselves. Volunteer doctors from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Brahmapur are present and providing first aid. This primary treatment encouraged those doctors, and they promised to serve for nine days.

Before the commencement of the Yatra, on the evening of June 19 at Saraswati Bal Vidyamandir (Ghoda Bazar), the office bearers of the Sangh divided all the swayamsevaks into eight parts and explained their responsibilities. Altogether, 2500 workers from Sangh and various organisations are engaged in this programme. This programme is going on under the supervision of Prant Sewa Pramukh Shantanu Manjhi and District Karyawah Vamdev Nayak.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Odisha East) state campaign chief Ravi Narayan Panda said that the volunteers have been given the responsibility with a complete plan for various arrangements in the Rath Yatra. The volunteers carry out their responsibilities from time to time with their identity cards. At the same time, we have asked the volunteers of the entire province to be ready to deal with any incident.

Hindusthan Samachar/Indrani Sarkar