Donations embrace the 'smart path' in digital Mahakumbh

With the state and central governments promoting digital financial transactions in a big way and the ongoing mega religious fair of Mahakumbh-2025 also witnessing a digital push, even donations have undergone a smart transformation in the sprawling 4000-hectare tent city of Mahakumbh Nagar.

- K Sandeep Kumar

MAHAKUMBH NAGAR:

From religious institutions to sadhus, a large number of them have come up with QR codes to enable pilgrims, patrons, and tourists to make donations to them through the smart digital route.

Even donation boxes installed outside makeshift temples in many camps in the mela area are sporting QR codes for this purpose. So is the case with camps running 'Ann Kshetra' (feeding areas) or organising 'bhandaras' (community meals) for pilgrims.

If someone does not have cash or prefers the digital mode of payments, these QR codes allow such people to make contributions and donations digitally.