The Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) has announced that auto rickshaws and goods carriers will not be allowed for Sabarimala pilgrimage. Devotees travelling to the Ayyappa temple in bikes without helmets will be fined.
Devotees coming tempos and lorries will be stopped and might carry them in the transportation facilities arranged by the MVD. As many as 20 squads will operate 24 hours within 400 kilometres of the temple under the safe zone project.
The safe zone project includes breakdown service, accident rescue service, traffic maintenance, a quick response team that will reach an accident spot within seven minutes, free crane service and free ambulance service.
