Around 20000 security personnel including theCentral Armed Police Force(CAPF) companies have been mobilised and deployed at various locations for ensuring security and maintaining law and order duringChhath Puja.
At least four companies of CAPF includingRapid Action Force(RAF) have been deployed at required locations in Patna, Bhagalpur, Aurangabad andMuzaffarpurfor Chhath.
Besides them, 2500 trainees ofBiharSpecial Armed Police (BSAP) and an equal number of Home guard jawans have also been mobilised for deployment and crowd control on roads, ghats and other places specially land-bound water bodies where devotees would throng for worshipping the Sun god.