Sirens to be sounded in Dehradun city today as part of routine test
Emergency sirens will be sounded in the city on Saturday (September 6, 2025) evening. These will not be sounded to warn of any disaster or attack but for testing. For this, the district administration has appealed to the city dwellers that they need not panic after hearing the sound.
After testing, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will inaugurate the siren. After Operation Sindoor, modern long-distance sirens have been installed at 13 places in the city. Of these, the sound of four sirens can be heard up to 16 kilometers and the sound of nine sirens can be heard up to eight kilometers. The Chief Minister will inaugurate it at Danalwala police station at 6 pm.
जनपद देहरादून में आम जनमानस को आकस्मिक स्थिति के दौरान सतर्क किये जाने के उद्देश्य से विभिन्न थाना क्षेत्रों में दिनांक 06.09.2025 सायं लगभग 06:00-06:30 बजे सायरनों का परीक्षण किया जाएगा। परीक्षण के दौरान सायरन बजने पर किसी भी प्रकार की अफवाह या घबराहट न फैलाएँ। यह केवल तकनीकी…
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District Magistrate Savin Bansal and Senior Superintendent of Police Ajai Singh inspected the venue of the event at both Dalanwala police station and Ghantaghar on Friday and took stock of the preparations. He instructed the officials to make all the arrangements on time. The District Magistrate said that in the first phase, 13 modern long range emergency sirens have been installed in Dehradun for emergency situations, whose purpose is to warn the citizens immediately. These sirens have been installed in police posts and they can transmit sound at a distance of 8 to 16 kilometers at various places. Their main job is to alert people in case of disaster, so that they can go to safe places.
The Chief Minister will inaugurate all these 13 modern long range sirens simultaneously with remote control in a program organized at Dalanwala police station at 6:15 pm on Saturday. During this, the shrill sound of siren will be heard simultaneously at all places in Dehradun city. People have already been informed about this so that the sound of siren does not panic among the people. He informed that in the first phase, sirens of 16 km range have been installed at 4 places in Dehradun city namely Rishikesh Police Station, Premnagar, Clementown and Raipur. Whereas 9 sirens of 8 km range have been installed in Dalanwala Police Station, Paltan Bazaar, Rajpur, Patel Nagar, Nehru Colony, Cantt, Vasant Vihar, Police Chowki Bindal and Police Line Racecourse.
The District Magistrate said that in the second phase, there is a plan to install modern long range sirens in Vikasnagar, Doiwala, Rishikesh, Chakrata and other city areas.
