India’s biggest fair Maha Kumbh started on January 13, 2025 and will end on auspicious day of Maha Shivaratri on February 26, 2025. Saints and various eminent personalities are visiting the Sangam city to attend the fair. Over 420 million devotees have taken a sacred dip at the holy Sangam so far.
Ahead of Maghi Purnima there are decisions taken related to handling traffic jams in Sangam city. The administrations have planned things for the Maghi Purnima. Maghi Purnima is on February 12, 2025.
To tackle the traffic-related issue the administration has made the entire Maha Kumbh the ‘No Vehicle Zone’. The fair is under No Vehicle zone from 4 am on Tuesday February 11 for the safety of devotees visiting Sangam City.
In the Prayagraj city the No Vehicle zone has been started from 5 pm on February 11. There are arrangements for devotees to park their vehicle.
On February 10, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the Railways had taken care of all arrangements at the eight railway stations ahead of the Magh Purnima celebrations at Mahakumbh. He inspected arrangements at the Prayagraj Railway Station on Monday. Vaishnaw said, “Railways has taken care of all the arrangements at 8 railway stations for Prayagraj Mahakumbh. Along with the state administration, everything is being done in a very coordinated way. Yesterday, 330 trains left Prayagraj Junction and even today trains are running in an orderly manner. If someone tries to spread rumours, we don’t want to listen to them. Everything is going on in a systematic manner.”
Information & Publicity Department of Railway Board, Executive Director, Dilip Kumar said, “We have deployed more than 13,000 railway personnel at the various railway stations in the Sangam Kshetra. Special trains are also being run as per requirement. Yesterday, 12 and half lakh devotees departed in 330 trains. Today also, more than 140 trains have already been operated. 1200 CCTV cameras have been installed. The monitoring is being done on 5 levels. Control rooms have been established at all stations to monitor the CCTV feed. There are CCTVs that also have face-recognition technology and Artificial Intelligence.”
