Indian Railway: The Maha Kumbh Mela held in Prayagraj is in its last phase, but the crowd of people arriving here is not decreasing. Trains on every route reaching Prayagraj are crowded. Roads are jammed and the price of air tickets is skyrocketing.
There is a huge crowd at the railway stations reaching Prayagraj. The stampede at New Delhi Railway Station was also the result of this crowd. In such a situation, North Central Railway has made new arrangements to control the crowd at railway stations.
The crowd of devotees is continuously increasing to take a holy dip in the Maha Kumbh. All the major bathing festivals have ended, but there has been no decrease in the number of people coming to Prayagraj. The crowd at major railway stations including Prayagraj Junction is not decreasing. Meanwhile, North Central Railway has implemented a special plan for crowd management.
Shashikant Tripathi, Chief Public Relations Officer, North Central Railway, Prayagraj Division, said that all VIP protocols have been stopped and advance booking of rest houses has also been stopped. Railways has again implemented its most effective scheme, the color coding system. Under this, passengers are being sent to different passenger shelters based on the color of their tickets.
Railways has arranged red, blue, yellow and green colour coding for passengers going in different directions at Prayagraj Junction, Prayagraj Chheoki and Naini stations. Passengers are being taken to the correct platform according to the colour of their tickets so that the crowd can be controlled. CPRO Shashikant Tripathi said that the holy bathing festival of Maha Kumbh is going on, however, the main bathing festivals have ended and now only the bathing festival of Mahashivratri is left. Despite this, the number of devotees is continuously increasing.
To control the crowd, the railways have arranged for single side entry and exit at Prayagraj Junction, so that the crowd can be controlled. When the crowd increases, the passengers are accommodated in Khusro Bagh and when the passenger shelters are empty, they are guided from there and brought to the platform.
Passengers are sent to the platform only when the train to their destination is stationed there. During the Maha Kumbh, only North Central Railway operated 134 Mela Special trains, while Northern Railway and Northeast Railway together operated 179 Mela Special trains. A total of 388 trains were operated on 15 February. Prayagraj Sangam Railway Station, which is closest to the Mela area, has already been closed for security reasons. Due to the small circulating area of the station, there is a lot of crowd there and chaos can spread.
The administration had demanded its closure, which was accepted by the railways. Due to the closure of Sangam station, devotees are forced to go to other stations, which has increased the crowd there even more. Traffic on the roads in the city has also been completely affected, there is a jostling among the passengers to board the shuttle buses. IANS
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