The rising price of arrival of devotees in giant numbers from everywhere in the nation in Mahakumbh Nagar is posing a problem to mela administration.
Heavy pilgrim inflow at Mahakumbh Nagar forward of the Mauni Amavasya snan. (Anil Kumar Maurya/HT)
Official information revealed on Sunday itself by 4pm (16 hours), a whopping 1.17 crore devotees took the holy dip in Sangam bringing the hourly common to six.25 lakh.
On Sunday, metropolis roads resulting in the tent metropolis remained choked with autos arriving from totally different states, forcing pilgrims to stroll practically 6 to eight kilometres to succeed in the Sangam, with 550 shuttle buses pressed into service by state authorities to move
pilgrims from totally different entry factors of district to tent metropolis, getting exhausted.
Devotees in giant numbers stored pouring in all by way of the intervening evening of Saturday and Sunday. The mela space has been declared ‘no vehicle zone’ in view of extreme devotee crowd inflow.
The typical depend of devotees taking the holy dip within the Sangam waters reached practically 2lakh per hour from Saturday afternoon onwards which elevated to over 6lakh per hour on Sunday afternoon, revealed official information.
By 8pm on Saturday, 11.47 crore individuals had taken tub on the Sangam for the reason that begin of the Mahakumbh on January 13. In view of the Mauni Amavasya snan, the identical figures might double with practically three extra days to go. Official estimates point out practically 8 crore
to 10 crore devotees are anticipated to wash on the Sangam on Mauni Amavasya.
Mahakumbh Nagar district Justice of the Peace Vijay Kiran Anand stated all measures had been in place to make sure clean regulation of the group within the Mela space. ‘Restrictions have been put on movement of vehicles in mela area in view of excessive crowd,’ he stated.
At 10am on January 24, the depend of devotees having bathed on the Sangam throughout the day was 28.29 lakh, which swelled to 35.34 lakh at 2pm, marking a rise of seven.05 lakh in a four-hour period. This introduced the hourly common to 1.76 lakh per hour. Additional,
the 35.34 lakh bathing depend recorded at 2pm elevated to 42.06 lakh at 4pm, bringing the hourly common to three.34 lakh per hour.
By 10 am on January 25, 24.93 lakh pilgrims had bathed on the Sangam. The quantity elevated to 32.98 lakh at 12 midday, bringing the hourly common to 4.02 lakh devotees per hour.
The depend swelled to 40.93 lakh at 2pm, registering the hourly common to three.97 lakh per hour of devotees bathing within the sacred waters. Additional, at 4pm, the depend elevated to 48.48 lakh, an addition of one other 7.55 lakh in two hours, placing the hourly common at 3.77 lakh.
On Sunday morning at 8am the depend of devotees having bathed was registered at 18.26 lakh which swelled to 1.17 crore at 4pm.
These having already arriving and bathed at Sangam usually are not prepared to depart mela space earlier than the Mauni Amavasya snan, thought-about probably the most holy. This has worsened state of affairs for mela managers as inflow sans exit of devotees was clogging clean motion in tent metropolis with every passing hour.
Says Meena Prajapati, a resident of Jaipur, Rajasthan, ‘We arrived in mela with great difficulty. Our vehicle was stopped nearly 8 kilometres from mela area. Now we will leave after bathing on Mauni Amavasya as this auspicious occasion will not arrive again before 144 years,’ she stated.
Equally, Kalpana Jain, resident of Indore, Madhya Pradesh arrived along with her household on Saturday and would return again on January 30 after the Mauni Amavasya bathing.
Says astrologer and director of Uthan Jyotish Sansthan Pandit Diwaker Tripathi, ‘This Mahakumbh is being held in a very rare planetary configuration where Jupiter transits in Taurus along with Sun transiting in Capricon completing 12 ‘chakras’ of Devguru Jupiter.
This the explanation pilgrims are decided to wash in Sangma waters on Mauni Amavasya and never depart earlier.’
He stated owing to FOMO or Concern Of Lacking Out, the devotee crowd in mela space was swelling in opposition to expectations posing problem for administration.
It could be talked about that UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Saturday had declared mela space as a ‘No Vehicle Zone’ in view of Mauni Amavasya bathing.