In line with promoting the city as the ‘creative capital’ of India, a series of big-ticket events – Comic Con event, rapper AP Dhillon’s concert, and Argentine footballer Lionel Messi’s Delhi tour – will be held this month, and the organisers are expecting a footfall of over 10,000 people.
The organisers said security arrangements are in place to ensure a smooth conduct of the events.
“We follow global safety standards to calculate the number of people a venue can safely accommodate. We check safe crowd movement from entry to exit. Everything from gate widths to the number of emergency exits is designed to keep the flow of crowd smooth,” said Naman Pugalia, Chief Business Officer, BookMyShow.
Rahul Ganjoo, Chief Executive Officer, Zomato, said a central command will monitor all crowd movement and safety operations through a network of CCTV cameras.
The security aspect assumes greater significance, particularly as the event comes close on the heels of the bomb blast near the Red Fort last month that killed at least 15 people. Four days after the November 10 explosion, the city hosted the India International Trade Fair, which was attended by thousands of people. A fortnight later, an event to observe Guru Tegh Bahadur’s 350th martyrdom was held at the Red Fort, and was attended by over 20,000 people, drawing appreciation from Union Minister Amit Shah for the successful conduct of the event.
