Mahakumbh-2025, organised on a never-before scale in Prayagraj and already having attracted over 54 crore pilgrims, will function an inspiration for the following Kumbh Mela of the nation to be held in 2027 at Nashik’s Trimbakeshwar.
Members of Nashik staff at Mahakumbh-2025 in Prayagraj on Tuesday (HT Picture)
A staff of senior officers from Nashik together with divisional commissioner Pravin Gedam, particular IG police (Nashik Vary) Dattatraya Karale and Nashik district Justice of the Peace Jalaj Sharma apart from Municipal Commissioner Manisha Khatri, CEO of Nashik Metropolitan Area Growth Authority Manik Gursal, reached Prayagraj late on Monday evening.
This 20-member staff will take a look at the varied preparations made throughout Mahakumbh-2025 and study from it and put together for the Kumbh to be held in 2027. Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, together with all Shiv Sena MPs and MLAs, can be anticipated to go to Prayagraj on February 19 to take a dip at sacred Sangam on the Mahakumbh Mela in Prayagraj.
Maharashtra’s management is eager on making the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Kumbh a landmark occasion, drawing insights from the Prayagraj Mahakumbh to make sure a seamless expertise for devotees and guests, stated officers.
Throughout their two-day go to, they may go to numerous websites in Prayagraj, learning key features of the Mahakumbh, together with crowd management, emergency response, site visitors and transport administration, ghats and river water administration.
They can even intently research well being and medical services, tent metropolis and housing, sanitation and waste administration, consuming water and bathroom providers, and coordination with Akhadas and mahants, together with safety and protocol preparations made for Mahakumbh-2025, stated DM of Mahakumbh Nagar Vijay Kiran Anand.
Vijay Kiran Anand gave an in depth presentation and engaged in a dialogue with the Nashik staff. He offered complete details about the Mela’s planning and addressed the staff’s queries.
On Tuesday, the staff inspected the mela grounds, akhadas, ghats, and different key areas, gaining first-hand info. Moreover, the staff noticed the interior site visitors administration, crowd management, sanitation, and numerous initiatives carried out for the occasion.
The staff additionally visited the Built-in Command Management Middle (ICCC) in Prayagraj, the place officers from the police, civil administration, hearth providers, and emergency administration had been current. Over 2,500 CCTV cameras throughout town are monitored from this heart. Officers from numerous departments, together with the central authorities’s railway, telecommunications, catastrophe administration, and BSF, are stationed at this management heart. The staff additionally realized about their roles and obligations.
Moreover, the staff gathered details about the well-equipped phone name heart, which has 50 traces, devoted to aiding residents. This heart helps with points like misplaced relations and basic issues. The staff additionally visited the ‘Digital Maha Kumbh’ initiative and gathered particulars concerning the info being offered to devotees. Moreover, the officers from numerous departments within the staff met their counterpart in Prayagraj to study concerning the services arrange there.
Nashik divisional commissioner Praveen Gedam stated, “The management of Mahakumbh 2025 is both unique and exemplary. We will incorporate these lessons into the organisation of Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Kumbh 2027. The aim of the visit is to study all technical aspects of organising Mahakumbh-2025 and implement the best and most suitable among them for the 2027 Kumbh.”
He stated that the research tour is invaluable, noting that efficient coordination and service-oriented collaboration between numerous departments is essential in an occasion as large because the Kumbh. “Ensuring security and maintaining peace among 50 crore devotees presents a significant challenge, and with the insights gained here, we will strengthen the administrative and security arrangements for the Nashik Kumbh,” he added.