Mandi Ahmedgarh admn initiates drive to protect statues

The administration here has launched a move to undertake proactive measures to prevent desecration of memorials and statues installed in open places. The authorities at institutes being run in names of great personalities or particular communities have been advised to take adequate measures to check any kind of disrespect to memorials installed on their premises.

The initiative was taken following an uproar over the recent incident of vandalism of a statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in Amritsar.

The initiative was kicked off by starting the process for constructing a metallic cage for protection of a statue of Shaheed Bhagat Singh here on Monday.

Ranjit Singh Bains, DSP (Special) ,who inspected various statues and memorials installed in the area, said the movement had been launched to ensure that anti-social elements and miscreants were not able to succeed in disrupting peace and harmony in the region by disfiguring or desecrating memorials vulnerable to vandalism.

“Having received instructions from Malerkotla SSP Gagan Ajit Singh, we conducted a survey of vulnerable memorials and statues and roped in government and non-government organisations for taking necessary steps to prevent any kind of desecration,” said Bains, adding that City SHO Aditya Sharma had been advised to enhance security near the statue of Shaheed Bhagat Singh till it gets the protection of an iron cage to be prepared by Municipal Council, Ahmedgarh.

Bains said the authorities at institutes housing memorials of great personalities had been advised to take adequate measures to protect the memorials installed at their respective premises.