Bangalore: Last week's serial blasts which occurred in Bangalore affected the business in some of the leading malls in the city. To revive business, the managements of the shopping entertainment complexes are taking additional measures and investing in hi-tech equipment, to scale up security and to lure back customers.
The city's has recently witnessed many malls come up with some being dedicated to middle-class consumers while others targeting up-market sections and some targetting the luxury brand segment.
With the malls witnessing stiff competition, many of the prominent ones have reviewed security measures while others have sought to invest in equipment that could help prevent untoward incidents and deal with any eventuality.
The security measures adopted vary from employing the services of trained officials — those with armed forces background and commandos — to impart training to their staff towards putting security cordons in place.
Measures such as physical checks, intensified patrolling, use of sniffer
dogs, electronic detector systems and round-the-clock monitoring have become the norm of the day at these malls which attract huge numbers of people especially during the evening.
The number of people visiting the malls has doubled on weekends and jumped up
significantly on festivals or on special days like the Valentine's Day, Friendship Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day. The numbers have also gone up during theme-based festivals or discount weeks, which are organised regularly.
The importance of security at the malls was highlighted when two bombs exploded in the nearby locality of a popular mall located in the city.
Rumours of explosions being triggered at one or two of the popular malls also did the rounds, contributing to panic and chaos on July 25.
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