PRAYAGRAJ, July 19 -- Ahead of the annual Kanwar Yatra, the Prayagraj district administration reviewed preparations on Saturday and directed all departments concerned to ensure comprehensive arrangements for devotees and maintain law and order along the pilgrimage routes and at major Shiva temples. The review meeting, chaired by additional district magistrate (city) Satyam Mishra, was attended by officials from various departments and office-bearers of Kanwar committees. The ADM instructed all departments to complete necessary arrangements well in advance in coordination with magistrates and police officials. He directed key departments to deploy officials in shifts along major Kanwar routes and asked the police to hold coordination meetings with all concerned police stations, particularly in mixed-population areas, to ensure peace. Officials were also directed to implement traffic diversions, install barricades at all bathing ghats and deploy police personnel at major crossings. The administration also instructed organisers of roadside 'langars' and 'bhandaras' to set up camps away from the carriageway to avoid obstruction and unnecessary crowding on the routes. Mishra instructed officials to ensure adequate barricading outside Shiva temples along with proper lighting, mobile toilets, drinking water tankers and sanitation facilities. He also ordered pruning of large trees along Kanwar routes and inspection of dilapidated buildings falling on the pilgrimage routes, with necessary action wherever required. The municipal corporation was asked to complete road restoration works, ensure proper street lighting and prevent waterlogging in urban areas. Power department officials were instructed to maintain uninterrupted electricity supply and immediately repair damaged or hanging power lines. The National Highways Authority of India was asked to inspect and close all illegal road cuts before the commencement of the yatra. The ADM also directed the police to ensure the closure of meat shops along Kanwar routes during the yatra, while the district excise officer was asked to take action in accordance with government guidelines. Public works department officials were instructed to make Kanwar routes pothole-free, restore non-functional streetlights on the Handia route and provide barricading at vulnerable locations. He further instructed that the volume of DJs at Kanwar camps must remain within the prescribed noise limits. Separate entry and exit arrangements at temples, adequate parking facilities, and deployment of doctors, ambulances and medicines at community and primary health centres located along the pilgrimage routes were also directed. ADM (administration) Upma Pandey, ADM (nazul) Sanjay Pandey and senior officials from the police, traffic and other concerned departments attended the meeting....