The Pune police on Thursday granted permission for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ event on August 22 with 30 conditions covering security, crowd control and law and order.At the August 22 event, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha will interact with women students over paper leaks, examination irregularities, rising education fees and unemployment.The programme at the SSPMS College Ground is expected to draw around 10,000 people between 4.30 pm and 9.30 pm. It is part of the Congress’s nationwide student outreach initiative, which the party aims to take to nearly 800 cities.The Pune police, in its conditional permission issued to former MLA and Maharashtra Congress senior vice-president Mohan Joshi, has put the responsibility for maintaining order at the venue on the organisers.Pune Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-5) Rajlakshmi Shivankar directed that no objectionable or provocative photographs, portraits or banners be displayed during the programme. Any incident resulting in a law and order problem could lead to withdrawal of the permission and legal action.The police has also capped attendance at the venue’s maximum capacity and directed the Congress to provide at least four separate entry and exit gates along with separate seating arrangements for men and women.With the Pune edition being centred on women students, enclosed frisking spaces will have to be created at entry points and only women security personnel can frisk female participants. Male volunteers have been barred from carrying out such checks, while the organisers have been asked to deploy an adequate number of women volunteers.The stage and marquee will require a fitness certificate from the Public Works Department, while a security “D-cordon” has to be erected in front of the main stage. Day-and-night CCTV surveillance across the venue has also been made mandatory.The police has prohibited drones for photography and videography as well as high-intensity beam lights directed towards the sky. The organisers will also have to comply with the Airport Authority of India and the CISF requirements and obtain NOCs from the fire and traffic departments.Noise levels will have to remain within Supreme Court-mandated limits, with instructions to ensure that nearby residents, hospitals, schools and the Pune Railway Station are not inconvenienced.Meanwhile, Rahul has sought to turn the Pune programme into a platform specifically for women students. “On August 22, ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ is arriving in Pune, and this time, the event will be exclusively for girls. The girls will speak, and the country will listen,” he said while announcing the event.The Pune programme comes after the Congress Working Committee on Wednesday decided to expand “Chhatron Ki Goonj” to nearly 800 cities, placing paper leaks, recruitment irregularities, education costs and unemployment at the centre of its nationwide youth campaign.