Mahakumbh Nagar, 17 January: Preparations have been intensified to ensure the safe completion of the most pious bathing festival of Maha Kumbh, Mauni Amavasya on January 29. Prayagraj Commissionerate and fair area will be declared a no-vehicle zone to provide safe movement to devotees from different areas of the country and foreigners. Movement of vehicles will be banned in the city and fair for five days.
Senior Superintendent of Police Maha Kumbh Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi said that a strategy has been prepared to send back the possible crowd of devotees coming for the Mauni Amavasya bathing festival after making them bathe safely. Movement of vehicles will be banned in the fair area and Prayagraj city two days before and two days after this bathing festival.
SSP informed that a plan is being implemented to change the movement of vehicles and control traffic in the border districts of Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Jaunpur, Bhadohi, Rae Bareli, Rewa, Satna. A plan is being worked on to provide the facility of shuttle bus, CNG auto and e-rickshaw to the devotees on normal days. Whereas all types of vehicles will be banned before and after the main bathing festival. More than seventeen hundred signages have been arranged. Variable message display boards are being installed at 230 places in Prayagraj. Through this board, the necessary information can be easily accessible to the devotees.
102 parking places have been made for vehicles
Keeping in mind the smooth movement of devotees, vehicles coming from the border districts of Prayagraj will be parked at the designated parking places. 19 hundred hectares of area has been identified for the devotees coming by road from Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Pratapgarh, Chitrakoot, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, Bhadohi, Satna Rewa Madhya Pradesh. Which has the capacity to park 5.5 lakh vehicles.
He said that holding areas have been created to control the movement of vehicles. Vehicles coming from border districts will be diverted. Along with this, CCTV cameras and AI and ANPR facilities are being used in the routes and parking. Apart from this, new roads and 8 new pontoon bridges have been constructed to facilitate the traffic of devotees in this Maha Kumbh as compared to the year 2019. When the first parking of small and big vehicles is full, vehicles will be parked immediately in the next parking. This series will continue in this order.
