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World's Largest Spiritual Gathering "KUMBH MELA 2019 INDIA" PART-2 Makes it to Guinness World Records



World's Largest Spiritual Gathering "KUMBH MELA 2019 INDIA"  PART-2

In part-1 we learned about Kumbh Mela 2019, now let's move further. You can check the previous blog by clicking here.

The Kumbh Mela are classified as:
  1. The Purna Kumbh Mela (sometimes just called Kumbh or "full Kumbha"), occurs every 12 years at a given site.
  2. The Ardh Kumbh Mela ("half Kumbh") occurs approximately every 6 years between the two Purna Kumbha Melas at Allahabad and Haridwar.The Maha Kumbh, which occurs every 12 Purna Kumbh Melas i.e. after every 144 years.
For the 2019 Allahabad Kumbh Mela, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced that the Ardh Kumbh Mela (organised every 6 years) will simply be known as "Kumbh Mela", and the Kumbh Mela (organised every 12 years) will be known as "Maha Kumbh Mela" ("Great Kumbh Mela").

Kumbh Mela 2019: Makes it to Guinness World Records

The Kumbh Mela is the largest public congregation of faith. The congregation includes Ascetics, Saints, Sadhus, Sadhvis, Kalpvasis, and Pilgrims from all walks of life.

Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 concluded on March 4, 2019 with the sixth and final "Shahi Snan" (royal bath) held on the occasion of Mahashivratri.
The single bathing festival of Mahashivratri is among the six main bathing festivals of the Kumbh. The other 5 bathing festivals of the Kumbh concluded successfully with more than 22 crore pilgrims taking a holy dip.
The world's largest religious and cultural human congregation, ‘Kumbh 2019’ began at Prayagraj (erstwhile Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh on January 15, 2019.
The Kumbh made it to the Guinness World Records in three sectors. A three member team from Guinness World Records visited the Prayagraj Kumbh for this purpose.

The Prayagraj Kumbh 2019 entered the Guiness Book of World Records for:

  1. The largest traffic and crowd management plan.
  2. The biggest painting exercise of public sites under paint my city scheme.
  3. The biggest sanitation and waste disposal mechanism.

Key initiatives undertaken by Uttar Pradesh Government

  • According to the UP Government, over 12 crores devotees and tourists visited Prayagraj during the Kumbh.
  • The Kumbh 2019 is spread over an area of 3,200 hectares of land. It is nearly 700 hectares more than the area utilised during the 2013 Maha Kumbh.
  • 21 Snan Ghats were set up for bathing.
  • Special arrangements were made for women devotees and for the first time three women police units were pressed into service.
  • Over 120000 toilets were erected for making Clean Kumbh.
  • The whole kumbh area was divided into 20 sectors and 9 zones for keen vigil by sector and zonal magistrates.
  • Forty police stations, 58 police outposts including three women police station were erected where more than 20 thousand security personnel were deployed.
  • Traffic management at Kumbh 2019 was planned to ensure smooth coordination of traffic movement on multiple channels and was integrated with google maps as well before the Mela.
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