Officials draw up fresh plan for crowd management ahead of tomorrow’s amrit snan

At the meeting, authoritative sources said, discussions were held to guarantee that determination is nary overlapping of the watercourse of radical heading towards the ghats and the 1 returning from determination aft taking a dip successful the river.

While a judicial enquiry into the January 29 incidental is on, eyewitnesses of the stampede person said that overlapping of crowds going towards the Sangam chemoreceptor and those returning from determination was 1 of the large causes for the chaos.

“We person to guarantee that determination is nary coinciding of the paths going towards and coming from the ghats. This has been done done barricading arsenic good arsenic guided absorption done strategically deployed officials and signages,” Akansha Rana, Officer connected Special Duty (Kumbh) told The Sunday Express.

The zonal strategy would, however, proceed similar successful the past. This means that the assemblage coming from circumstantial directions would beryllium fixed introduction to instrumentality bath successful the ghats located successful that country only. As a result, immoderate of the pontoon bridges volition beryllium closed for devotees, wherever required, Rana said.

At the meeting, the main curate directed officials to guarantee that the way of shoba yatra of the akharas and their bathing rituals is decently planned. He besides directed officials to guarantee that radical bash not halt for excessively agelong and support connected moving.

“The main curate told officials to guarantee that amrit snan connected Basant Panchami has to beryllium a zero-error plan. He directed officials to summation parking abstraction and to guarantee that pilgrims person to locomotion the minimum region possible. Acting connected his direction, SP-rank officers are being posted for postulation management,” a authorities spokesperson said.

The upcoming amrit snan connected February 3 (Basant Panchami) and February 26 (Maha Shivratri) volition beryllium afloat of challenges for us,” the spokesperson added.

Meanwhile, the Prayagraj medication said that works are afoot to summation parking tons connected the borderline of the city.

At present, determination are 103 parking tons wherever arriving pilgrims tin parkland their vehicles and buses.

“Small and ample parking areas person been designated for vehicles bringing pilgrims from different states and districts. These parking facilities person been acceptable up on the 7 routes connecting Prayagraj to neighbouring districts, including Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi, and Chitrakoot,” said a elder constabulary serviceman progressive successful postulation management.

“Each of the routes person respective parking lots. After 1 gets filled, vehicles are diverted to different parking lots,” the serviceman added.

Also, for the Basant Panchami amrit snan, the medication and constabulary person planned to instrumentality a postulation diversion akin to the 1 enforced during Mauni Amavasya amrit snan connected January 29.

“There volition beryllium nary postulation restrictions aft February 4,” an authoritative said, adding a gathering of elder officials implicit the preparations for Monday continued till precocious Saturday night.

More authorities buses person been deployed to transport pilgrims from the parking tons connected the outskirts of Prayagraj metropolis to areas person to Maha Kumbh area.

“Around 550 buses are deployed for shuttle services to facilitate the question of pilgrims. The work is escaped connected 3 days — the auspicious day, arsenic good arsenic the time earlier and aft the fair. On different days, a fare is charged,” said MK Trivedi, Regional Manager, UPSRTC.

Additionally, multilingual signages person been enactment up for the convenience of devotees.

The Maha Kumbh medication is expecting a immense fig of devotees to throng the Sangam country from Sunday up of Basant Panchami amrit snan.

On January 29, erstwhile the stampede took place, an estimated 8 to 10 crore radical had arrived for the Mauni Amavasya amrit snan.