nashik even as the police geared up for the ganesh festival by beefing up security arrangements and seeking the help of home guards and the state reserve police force srpf ganesh mandals have largely shunned the appeal by senior police officials to instal cctv cameras on the eve of the commencement of the festival only three ganesh mandals including the one belonging to the nashik municipal corporation nmc have installed cctv cameras last year there were around 850 ganesh mandals and the number is expected to touch a thousand this year senior police officials said that the mandals have not been able to set up the system due to the cost factor but have assured to observe all the security measures that they were informed about meanwhile additional forces have been deployed by the city police to ensure that no untoward incident takes place during the festival which starts on wednesday commissioner of police kulwant kumar sarangal said that apart from the city police force of 2500 police officials would deploy 900 home guards and 250 new recruits who are under training as well as five platoons of the stare reserve police force srpf further the services of the road safety patrol rsp students and those in the national service scheme nss and national cadet corps will also be utilized they will work alongside the city police for crowd management and street patrolling at various fixed points till tuesday as many as 463 ganesh mandals had taken police permission from zone 2 and another 237 from zone 1 of the police commissionerate sarangal said that this year the number of mandals seeking police permission may increase since new residential localities are developing in different parts of the city as part of the preventive measures the police department is taking action against miscreants under various sections of the code of criminal procedure meanwhile the police have told ganesh mandals to take responsibility of security in their respective mandals and have warned of severe action against people found gambling in the pandals further mandals have also been asked to make separate arrangements for men and women for darshan members of mandals have also been asked to ensure that oil lamps incense sticks candles etc should not be kept in a manner that could spread fire and have been told to check pooja articles like flowers garlands coconuts etc brought by devotees as per the supreme courts directive playing music between 10pm and 6am has been banned however the rule will be relaxed till midnight and on the last day of ganeshotsav meanwhile the city police commissionerate has prepared an audio compact disc that will be distributed among mandals this disc will be played by the mandals and a message about security measures to be taken will be issued