India, March 5 -- The Goa government is pulling out all stops to ensure there is no repeat of last year's stampede during the annual temple pilgrimage festival, Jatra, at the Lairai Devi temple in Shirgao village that killed six people, Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Thursday.

Speaking after visiting the village to review this year's preparations, the Chief Minister said, "In order to ensure that the kind of incident that happened last year never repeats, the government is taking all necessary precautions. From our side, the government has improved infrastructure and taken several precautions: temporary crowd enforcement measures like barricades, clearing encroachments from the route, etc."

"The routes, timings, etc. will be a...