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Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya reviews preparations for Kumbh Mela, successful Prayagraj, Tuesday. (PTI)
TO TACKLE a interest among radical that has been agelong associated with the Kumbh Mela – that of getting mislaid during 1 of the largest spiritual gatherings, expected to beryllium attended by astir 40 crore radical successful January 2025 successful Prayagraj, the Uttar Pradesh government, with the assistance of method experts, is firming up an extended “digitalisation” plan.
This is besides aimed astatine providing a state-of-the-art “digital Kumbh” bath acquisition to visitors, officials said connected Tuesday.
Also portion of the program volition beryllium Google-powered navigation of the Kumbh Mela country to Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered cameras, which tin recognise faces and a depository of “Digital Kumbh”, successful which an effort is being made to link age-old contented with modern technology, which would assistance visitors arsenic good arsenic sadhus coming for the beatified dip.
To trial the inaugural overmuch earlier the existent baths commencement successful January, a ‘digital mislaid and recovered centre’ volition spell unrecorded from December 1 and officials are astatine enactment to conscionable the deadline. Having tested the occurrence of AI-powered cameras, present enactment is underway to instal implicit 300 AI-enabled cameras crossed the Kumbh areas, which would not lone show the assemblage and supply surveillance but would besides assistance reunite individuals mislaid successful the monolithic crowd.
Having already collaborated with Google, the program is to coordinate with different societal media platforms, including Facebook and X, to supply accusation astir missing idiosyncratic arsenic good arsenic helping successful locating them.
“As portion of the integer initiative, which would beryllium the archetypal specified large-scale exercise, determination would beryllium Google-integrated navigation maps of the Maha Kumbh area, which would beryllium dispersed successful acres and divided into sectors.”
“Apart from that, Google-assisted navigation would besides supply locations of ghats, temples, akharas and saints, assisting not conscionable pilgrims but besides saints and seers,” informed a elder official, adding that integer maps would besides assistance devotees successful reaching the Sangam ghats for the beatified bath. He informed that “instant designation installation with AI-powered look designation exertion is besides being enactment successful place.”
A chatbot named “Kumbh Sahayak” is being developed for the lawsuit utilizing AI technology, with the purpose to enactment arsenic a “personal guide” to the visitors. The people is to marque the work disposable successful implicit 10 languages including portion arsenic good arsenic planetary arsenic Kumbh would witnesser visitors not conscionable from antithetic parts of the state but besides abroad. This chatbot would beryllium connected with online navigation of the Maha Kumbh grounds and would besides update visitors astir the large events and places wrong arsenic good arsenic extracurricular Kumbh area.
The authorities is besides investing implicit Rs 21 crore to physique a “Digital Kumbh museum” successful Prayagraj implicit 10,000 quadrate metres with the capableness to accommodate astir 2,500 visitors simultaneously astatine a time. The Digital Kumbh would person a gallery, which would showcase “14 gems of Samudra manthan” successful detail. It volition besides connection glimpses into erstwhile Kumbh Melas successful Haridwar, Nashik and Ujjain. The thought is to supply an “interactive experience” showcasing the contented and past associated with the Kumbh.
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