Thursday, September 08, 2011: Thousands of people visited trade fairs and textile shops in the city as the Onam season sales started to peak on Thursday. Brisk sales were reported at shops and trade fairs across the city, with Onam shopping reaching a feverish pitch just one day before Thiruvonam. Uthradam, the first day of the festival, when people buy the essential goods for the traditional ‘Onasadya’ and ‘Onakkodi’ also turned out to be a money-spinning occasion for thousands of commercial firms and street vendors in the city.
The vegetable and fruit markets too witnessed a heavy flow of shoppers on Thursday. Meanwhile elaborate security arrangements are in place for the Onam celebrations in the city.
Every nook and corner of the city where festival action takes place will be under the watchful eyes of a closely-knit mesh of surveillance cameras, the pick of the season being a network of innovative moving cameras.
The City Police have decided to install as many as 40 moving cameras at festival centres. They will be set up at the entrances and narrow lanes near festival centres, where there would be a heavy crowd and little police surveillance. The cameras will be controlled from the special control room that will function inside the Kanakakkunnu Palace premises.
Besides the 40 moving cameras, the City Police will install 160 security surveillance cameras, all of them controlled from the special control room, at different parts of the city.
A total of 1,300 police personnel, including 1,200 uniformed officers and 100 plainclothesmen, will be present. They will also include 135 women officers who will be deployed across the city as part of ensuring law and order. They will work round the clock under the orders of different Assistant Commissioners of Police.
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