Over 7 Lakh Kalpwasis Expected During Mega Fair

With less than 15 days to go for the Mahakumbh-2025, workers raced to complete their tasks for the mega event even as the onset of a western disturbance led to mild showers and a drop in temperature in the past two days.

- HT Correspondent

PRAYAGRAJ:

Chief engineer, Public Works Department, AK Dwivedi said work was in full swing for laying checkered plates at Gata Marg, besides sectors 8 and 9. The work would be completed in the next one or two days, he said.

On the other hand, Rajendra Paliwal, president of Prayagwal Sabha, an organisation of teerth purohits (priests), claimed not a single camp for 1000-odd teerth purohits had been set up so far. He also claimed the work of laying checkered plates was incomplete in the far-off sectors 8 and 9, located near Phaphamau, besides sectors 10, 11 and 12.

Similarly, work of setting up of public toilets and tents for Kalpwasis, besides pontoon bridges, was still incomplete, it was claimed.