“Round 150,000-200,000 pilgrims visited Varanasi each day (six days every week). On 4 Sravan Mondays, 600,000-700,000 devotees visited, and taking collectively Nag Panchami, the overall quantity was virtually a crore (10 million) within the final one month,” Varanasi police commissioner Mohit Agarwal informed ET.
The police and the native administration had enhanced the town's drone surveillance and CCTV monitoring, carried out particular crowd administration techniques, and arrange extra medical help and police cubicles in the course of the interval to handle the inflow of pilgrims to the holy metropolis, which can also be the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The variety of pilgrims who visited Varanasi in the course of the Sravan month final 12 months was marginally decrease in contrast with this 12 months. Nevertheless, in the course of the Maha Kumbh, round 100 million individuals a month visited in January and February this 12 months, which was a giant problem to deal with, Agarwal mentioned. The learnings from the time helped make preparations in the course of the Sravan month this time, he mentioned.
Police personnel got particular behavioural coaching to deal with pilgrims with empathy, care and respect, Agarwal mentioned.
All the space close to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple was turned to a no-vehicle zone for the primary time and parking services have been earmarked outdoors the town periphery for giant buses and autos, he added.“A management room was arrange which was monitored by the commissioner of police, district Justice of the Peace divisional commissioner from the evening forward of Sravan Mondays, because the devotees began to assemble in giant numbers and crowd circulation was monitored,” Agarwal mentioned.Two lanes of the four-lane freeway from Prayagraj to Varanasi have been devoted for ‘kanwaris' as they travelled to Varanasi. Kanwar Yatra, undertaken by devotees of Lord Shiva, or ‘kanwaris', is without doubt one of the most outstanding spiritual actions in the course of the Sravan month.On the final Monday of the month of Sravan, devotees gathered in giant numbers in Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath Temple. With water ranges of the Ganga rising above the hazard stage and a lot of the ghats getting submerged up to now few days, authorities needed to make particular preparations this 12 months, together with to barricade the ghat, the police commissioner mentioned.
