Decongestion plan rolled out for better crowd management

Officials and security personnel rolled out decongestion measures across the Mela area and the entire city after the pre-dawn stampede at the Sangam Nose on Wednesday.

- K Sandeep Kumar

MAHAKUMBH NAGAR:

They ensured that while the incoming flow of pilgrims was stopped by holding back people in the designated holding areas, the outflow of people returning home after the bathing was speeded up.

District magistrate (Mahakumbh Nagar) Vijay Kiran Anand, DIG (Mela) Vaibhav Krishna and SSP (Mahakumbh) Rajesh Dwivedi led the efforts from the front.

To control the inflow, borders of Prayagraj district were sealed with incoming vehicles being stopped in almost all neighboring and nearby districts including Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot, Jaunpur and Mirzapur, among others.

Pilgrims already in the district were stopped and convinced to either turn back or bathe at river ghats closest to their respective locations, said officials.