Field Trip Report and Complementary Information

The following information comes from three different sources. First on eight interviews held on site with people who had actively participate as agents in previous versions of the Kumbh Mela or that are currently involved in this version. The interviewees were: three boat men, two group of workers at the construction site, one engineer which was in charge of the construction of “pipas” (floating part of the bridges) and two sellers form the vegetable market. All this information should be double- checked. The second source was the Kumbh Mela 2013 Map published by the Mela Administrator on October 10th and norms and regulations written in United Provinces Mela Rules. The method used was to bring and revise the map of the Kumbh Mela 2013 with people on the ground and collecting any information that they could provide me through spontaneous conversation. Since the main topic of this research is the Metabolism of the Ephemeral City, the information was organized in categories related to the assembly and disassembly of infrastructure and the description of main flows of material, people, and capital happening during the Kumbh Mela. Boundaries for the Kumbh Mela 2013

Built up area inside the boundaries of the Kumbh Mela 2013

According to the 1940 Mela regulation, for each version of the festival the district magistrate has to notify through the official gazette the definition of limits for the Mela Area. This publication sets the limits for the ephemeral city to happens which probably are determined according the anticipation of assistants. We can easily verify how the planning process had evolved and gain complexity by comparing the current map with the one of 1989. The area has increase in size and specificity. The following maps are juxtaposed at the same scale, both shows the Mela boundaries expected for each version. Looking at them together it is possible to compare and identify the morphological evolution of the ephemeral city.

2013 1989

Area Kumbh Mela 21013 versus area Kumbh Mela 1989

The boundaries of this version of the Kumbh Mela had been already established. Quoting from the notification of the Mela area 2013 dated on August 22 will be the following: North From Bairahana Chauraha-to-Daraganj Vegetable Market at Quila Ghat Road via Daragang Police Station along old G.T. Road, from Nagvasuki Temple-to-Buxi Bundh,from Buxi Bundh-toSalori STP’s Ring Bundh’s Allegangj end-to-Ganeshwar Mahadev Temple near Amitabh Bacchan Culvert (Chandpur Salori village) along the , from Ram Janaki (Kuti) Temple-to-Hetapatti-Kuti Road on T-Junction of Garapur-Jhunsi Road. East From Hetapatti-Kuti Road T- Junction on Garapur –Jhunsi Road –Jhunsi Near UPSRTC Workshop on Jhunsi-Rahimapur Road, from UPSRTC Workshop of Jhunsi-Rahimapur Road-to-Rahimapur T- Junction on -Janpur Road to Durjanpur toward Andawan (near Lord Shiva’s Temple),- to Allahabad- G.T Road near Gulab Singh petrol Pump, form Gulan Sing Petrol Pump to Chak Hariharvan village on Allahabad-Varanasi Temple G.T Road towards Jhunsi, from Chak Hariharvan Village-to-near Tulsi Ram’s residence (village Ustanpur Mohammdabad on Chhatanag Road, from near Tulsi Ram’s Residence-to North-Eastern end of Birla Guest House, from Birla Guest House to Electricity Transmission Line’s Tower located on the left bank of the Ganges downstream (near Himalayan Institute), from Electricity transmission line’s Tower located on the right bank across the Ganges in Airail. South From Electricity Transmission Line’s Tower across the Ganges in Arail-to-Over Head TAnk(Omaxe City Township), From over Head Tank (Omaxe City Township) – to the culvert point on the Mavaiya – Arail Road(Near Delhi Public School) from culvert point-to Maharshi Ved Vigyan Mandir (Swami Brahmanand Charitable Trust) along Devrakh Uparhar Kachha Road, from Maharshi Ved Vigyan Mandir (Swami Brahmanand Saraswati Charitable Trust)-to Mirzarpur-Naini Road along Lokpur Road and Arail – Naini Road and from Mizarpur – Naini Road at Arail – Naini Road – T Junction upto old Bridge (Allahabad End) West From old Yamuna Bridge (Allahabad End) to Yamuna Bank Road towards up to Bairahana Crossing (Cemetery Road.

Zoning and Public Facilities.

For this version of the Kumbh the ephemeral city had been divided in 14 sectors, each of them will contain all kinds of facilities organized in camps. The Kumbh Mela Administration designed the area using a structural plan, which determines zones with defined uses and fix interventions that are specific. The planning method operates could be seen as an structural plan, an merge of zoning and urban design. In what follows there is a description of the elements, which are specified in the plan provided by the Kumbh Mela administration.

Preexistences.

Existing Built Up area, Existing Temple, Existing Mosque

Kumbh Area

Mela Boundary, Sector Boundary Parking zones

Heavy Vehicle Parking, Light Vehicle Parking, Tractor, Scooter and Cycle, Parking Over Flow

Transportation Network

Railway/ Road Bridge (preexistent), Pantoon Bridge (proposed), Existing Road (preexistent), Proposed Road (proposed), Fly Over (proposed), Culvert (proposed), Administrative Road (proposed)

Different traffic flows are separated and planned in both direction and constitution. The plan defines path and senses for: Vehicles (Ricksawhs, Tuc Tucs and cars), Akharas, Pedestrians, Boats, Tractors and Government Buses.

Uses (There is not Information on the map available – We have to get it )

Commercial Zone, Bathing Ghat, Zone for Akharas, Zone for Prayagwals, Zone for Anna Kshetas , Zone for Kalpwasis, Zone for other Religious Organizations.

Governmental Zones (The map is in low resolution, is very difficult to see – We have to get it in a better resolution)

Zone for Governmental administrative department, Electricity Board, Fire Station, Police Station, Police Out Post, Jal Police, Mounted Police, Information Offices, Railway, Press, Jal Nigam, Latrine

Important facilities that are specifically located (The map is too low resolution – We have to get it in a better resolution)

Hospital, Health Store, Market, TV Station, Electric Sub Station, Tube Well, Watch Tower, Telephone, Boat Stand Inside the Kumbh Mela boundaries, the space is divided in 14 sectors, which are planned to host the camps. The following is a brief description of how of each sector is planed to be by the Mela Administration.

14 Sectors Kumbh Mela 2013 East of the Ganges Sectors 1-6 Sector 1

This sector is located at the east of the Ganges, at the north of the Sangam and at the south of the main road, which is connected to Lal Bahadur Shastri Bridge. In this sector there is already 10% of existing built up area. According to the Kumbh Mela plan it will be three police stations and one police out post. Approximately the 40% of the sector is undefined use area. This sector is also connected to the Civil Line that is Allahabad main road. Sector 2

This sector is at the right side of Sector one. It is located at the east of the Ganges, at the north of the Sangam and it is trespassed by the main road, which is connected to Lal Bahadur Shastri Bridge. Within the boundaries of this sector it is located the fort and one temple and two mosques. According to the Kumbh Mela plan it will be two police stations and one police out post. Approximately the 10% of the sector is undefined use area, 5% is hold up and 10% is Police Line Sector 3

This sector is at the right side of Sector two. It is located at the east of the Ganges, just in front of the Sangam. In this sector there is no existing built up area. According to the Kumbh Mela plan it will be three police stations. Three Pontoon bridges have one extreme located in this sector: bridge number 1 called Akshayvat Marg. bridge number 2 called Mahaveer Marg and number 3 which has no name. There are also contemplated two P.W.D. Sector 4

This sector is at the north side of Sector three. It is located at the east of the Ganges. In this sector there is no existing built up area. According to the Kumbh Mela plan it will be three police stations. Five Pontoon bridges have one extreme located in this sector: Bridge Number 4 called Jagadish Marg; Bridge Number 5 which has no name; Bridge number 6 called Triveni Marg; Bridge Number 7 which has no name and bridge number 8 called Kali Marg. There are also contemplated three P.W.D. Sector 5

This sector is located on the banks of the Ganges next to sectors four and two. This sector has approximately a 20% of built area. Inside its boundaries are located one sewerage treatment plant and three police out post. Four pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 10 called Shivala Gangoli Marg; bridge number 11 called Old G.T Marg; bridge number 12 called Harishchandra Setu Marg and bridge number 13 called Nag Vasuki Marg. There are also contemplated two P.W.D. Sector 6

This sector is located on the banks of the Ganges next to sector six. This sector has no built up area and two police out post. Two pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 15 called Shankar Marg; bridge number 14 called Bhar Dwaj Marg. There are three vlages inside its boundaries: Bahadupur Village, Auraha Village and Rahmpur Village.

West of the Ganges Sectors 7-12 Sector 7

This sector is located on the western edge of the Ganges opposite to sector six in the northern part of the Kumbh Mela boundaries. Two pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 15 called Shankar Marg; bridge number 14 called Bhar Dwaj Marg This sector has two police out post and one Hindu temples. Inside its boundaries it is contemplated one zone for parking heavy vehicles. There is also contemplated one P.W.D. Sector 8

This sector is located on the western edge of the Ganges next to sector seven. Two pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 13 called Nag Vasuki Marg; bridge number 14 called Bhar Dwaj Marg This sector has one police out post. Inside its boundaries are contemplated three zones for parking light vehicles. There is also contemplated one P.W.D. Sector 9

This sector is located on the western edge of the Ganges next to sector eight. Three pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 13 called Nag Vasuki Marg; : bridge number 12 called Harishchandra Setu Marg; bridge number 11 called Old G.T Marg. This sector has one police out post. There is also contemplated two P.W.D. Sector 10

This sector is located on the western edge of the Ganges next to sector nine Almost the 80% of the area is built up, the most of it is Railway property. Inside this sector it will be two police out post and one police station, four zones for parking heavy vehicles and one for paring light vehicles. Three pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 11 called Old G.T Marg; : bridge number 10 called Gangoli Marg and bridge number 9 Mori Marg. This sector is also crossed by Lal Bahadur Shastri Bridge. And the train rail. There is also contemplated two P.W.D. Sector 11

This sector is located on the western edge of the Ganges next to sector ten. Almost the 40% of the area is already built up Seven pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 8 called Kali Marg;: bridge number 7 called Gangoli Marg and bridge number 6 Triveni Marg; bridge number 5 called Jagadish Marg; bridge number 4 Mahaveer Marg; bridge number 3 which has no name and bridge number 2 called Akshayvat Marg. This sector is also crossed by Lal Bahadur Shastri Bridge. Sector 12

This sector is located in front of the Sangam between sector eleven and the Ganga River. Almost the 30% of the area is already built up Two pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 1 called Kali Marg, bridge number 17 (Name to be confirmed) and bridge 18 called Ballabhacharya Marg. Inside the boundaries of this sector it is the Harishchandara, Research Institute, Birla house Annad Kannan, three zones for light parking, one mosque and three P.W.D.

South of the Sangam Sectors 13 -14 Sector 13

This sector is located in front of the Sangam between The ganga river and the Yamuna. . Almost the 40% of the area is already built up. There are not Pontoon Bridges in the banks of this sector but there is the New Yamuna Bridge. Inside this sector there is one police out post one police station, Jal Police, one pond of fresh water. Four zones of light parking are contemplated inside the boundaries of this sector. Sector 14

This sector is located in between sector thirteen and the Ganga River. Two pontoon bridges have one extreme supported in this sector: bridge number 17 (Name to be confirmed) and bridge 18 called Ballabhacharya Marg. This sector is planning to be open area. There is no built up area inside the sector however they are building Omaxe city campus. There are two police out post, one police station and one light parking area.

New questions for the Administration regarding Planning and Anticipation:

1) It is possible to get more information regarding the land uses? The map they published does not show everything yet. There is a more developed version that we could get from the administration? 2) What are the criteria for locating the police stations? 3) What are the criteria for defining sectors? 4) Why are sectors having so different sizes? 5) Are sector specific? Are some governmental other residential? 6) How many camps are inside each sector? 7) Does planning contemplate mixture of functions or segregation? Camps are self-sufficient or depend on functions located outside? 8) How many of the people that spend the day inside the boundaries of the Kumbh actually sleeps there? 9) What does P.W.D stands for? 10) How does the sectors change from Mela to Mela and why? 11) What are the new challenges that the growing scale of the Kumbh is bringing from the prospective of planning and anticipation? 12)

Bridges: Assembly, Disassembly, Storage and Reuse.

For the last Kumbh Mela 70.000.000 people came to Allahabad and for this version of the festival the authorities are anticipating 90.000.000. For this reason the city needs to provide more ways of access and discharge. In addition the area of the Kumbh is right in the perimeters of the Sangam, which separates the space in three zones that needs connection and accessibility. In January, when the Kumbh Mela starts, the river will be one to five meters deep depending on the place. This allows the city to install Pontoon bridges. The work on this infrastructure starts six month before the Kumbh Mela when contractors begin working in the bridges. By the start of January all the bridge will be completed. From the Kumbh Mela 2013 Map published by the Kumbh Mela administration is possible to identify 17 Pontoon bridges proposed across the Ganges and two across the Yamuna. They are designated with numbers and names. Going from north to south respectively the names and numbers are: 15\ Shankar Marg; 14\ Bhar Dwaj Marg; 13\ Nag Vasuki Marg; 12\ Harishchandra Setu Marg;11\ Old G.T Marg; 10\ Shivala Gangoli Marg; 9\ Lal Badahur Shastri Bridge; 8\ Kali Marg; 7\ No name; 6\ Triveni Marg; 5\ No Name; 4\ Jagadish Marg; 3\No Name; 2\ Mahaveer Marg; 1\ Akshayvat Marg. The construction of Pontoon Bridges not only provides the required accessibility for walking people but also for rickshaws and tuc tucs and small cars.

Section of a Pantoon Bridge (drawing made using approximated dimensions).

Each bridge of the will have five hundred “Pipa” (“Pipa” is the Indian name for the floating iron cylinders). These pieces are reused in different festivals, the last time they used them was for the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar four years ago. The pipas are made of a thin layer of iron that keeps a big volume of air inside. Beams and iron chains connect them. Each of them has one inspection camera in the upper part approximately 70 by 60 centimeters big. The key thing they have to do is preventing the water to come inside the pipa therefore the inspection cameras gives the possibility to fix any possible situation that could happen will the bridge is floating on the Sangam. The volume of water displaced by the all the pipas defines the resistance of the bridges. The weight of the water displaced minus the weight of the whole structure of the bridge would be the quantity of charge the bridges are able to support without sinking. According to the people in the ground the weight of each pipa is 5.459 tons (Information to be verified) and it cost is 3.5 lacks rupees (Information to be verified). According to the contractor around 1000 Pontoon are old 436 new pantoons are built on ground. They have something like 500 people working in fixing the “pipa” and working on the construction of the bridges during the assembling time The daily payment for each worker is 250 rupees per day. They normally work seven days a week unless they have festival or problems. In any case if they don’t work they don’t get paid for the day. Fixing the pipa they take four months. The fixing process includes welding pieces and the application of a waterproofing black layer. Around the14th of November they start transporting the material to the Sangam (After Diwali). During December the main work of assemblage is done and by the end of December all the new and old “pipa” will be floating in the water sustaining the assembled bridges. The process of assembling the bridges takes 30 days. This is not a lot of time considering the time that is used for fixing and building all the “pipa”. This is the most important task to make because preventing the water to filtrate inside the “pipa” is the way to secure the safety of the crowd that will be using the bridges during the Kumbh Mela. Once the Kumbh ends they disassemble the bridges and put the pipa in different storages some of them are located in Allahabad. For transportation purposes they break it in pieces before transporting it to the storage facility or to other cities. That process takes one month. The same structures will be used for other festivals and especially in future versions of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad or in one of the other three cities (Ujjain, Nashik, Haridwar.)

New questions for the Administration regarding bridges: 1) Who is the owner of the floating structures? 2) What percentage of the budget is consumed by the Pontoon bridges? 3) How is determined the quantity of bridges they build? 4) How does the ropes work? 5) How are the extremes fixed? 6) Why do the bridges not separate flows? 7) Why do the iron beams used are not perforated? 8) How many people walk the bridge daily? 9) Considering that flow speed grows exponentially in relation to the section of the path, wouldn’t be more efficient to do less but wider bridges? Or there is a reason for the number?

Electric Infrastructure: Assembly, Management and Disassembly

According to the people that I meet in the ground there are private agencies that take care of providing electric energy, several meters of wire and electric installation are made before the Kumbh Mela and after are taken out. The land is divided by sectors which are administrated by private agents. Each private agent is responsible of during the Kumbh Mela collect the money for the electricity from all the people he rent a space. Once all the money is collected he would have to pay the money to the city, which will arrange the payment of the private agencies in charge of providing electricity wiring and energy.

New questions for the Administration regarding Electric Infrastructure: 1) How is the process of money collection for the electricity accomplished? 2) When they start wiring and how many meters do they need to install? 3) How many private agencies work in the construction process? 4) When the infrastructure is installed and when they take it of?

Tents

Not only local people are involved in the construction of the Kumbh Mela city, but also people coming for villages near Allahabad and some more qualified people coming from big cities like Patna and Varanasi. The residential area of the city is composed by tents, which are started to be places ride after Diwali. They use different fabrics and bamboo structure for its construction. Tents come in different sizes depending on the provider and also different levels of comfort. Some of them even have wood floor and all the facilities that a good hotel would provide to the guests. However the most of the tents are austere and simple. There are also people which do not stay in tents but that prefer to sleep outside at open air. This is very common especially among people coming from rural areas. Private agencies are involved in the setting up of the tents and they have to rent from the government a plot inside the Kumbh Mela boundaries for its allocation. The city allows you to dwell in the Kumbh Mela area only for one month. Each the rent of each plot cost to the private agency around 1000 rupees per tent. Some assistants get reduced fare probably subsided by the government or the city. Sadhus and “holly people”, who stay in some of the most privileged spots near the Sangam do not pay the same than normal people attending the Kumbh. Each sector is responsible of constructing toilets for the people it would host.

New questions for the Administration regarding Tents: 1) What is the size of the standard tent plot? 2) How many private agencies provide the tents and who are the bigger players? 3) Who pays for sadhus tents? To be developed

Food Flows Allahabad area is not capable of providing the food for all the people coming. Therefore people from several villages in Uttar Pradesh come to sell vegetable and rice. The food is sold trough two different venues, first some fixed markets and trading areas are settled inside the Kumbh Mela and also the vegetable market which is is functioning all year in the access of the sangam area works also during the Kumbh. Secondly and most important is the mobile shops which could have different formats. Depending on the scope f the selling the seller would have vehicles of different sizes. There are some that sell only what the can carry by hand. There are other who sell what they can carry with they rickshaws and tuc tucs and also people use carts moved by men for goods transportation. The mobility of vegetables and foods plays a fundamental role in the operation of the cuty because reduce human flows in searching of food reducing with these also the movement between sectors and the crowding in places of food trading. Trucks arrive with food to the city of Allahabad, and then food is taken into the area of the Kumbh Mela in smaller vehicles. Smaller producers also bring their goods from near areas using the same vehicles that will enter the area of the Kumbh. People come from villages and other big cities from Uttar Pradesh for working in the food market. Several foreigners comes from Patna and Varanasi People on the ground told me that there are big containers and trucks that arrives from other parts of the region full of vegetables. Then there is a first buyer, which is not the final consumer. Some people buy for selling inside the Kumbh area. They may have restaurants to provide with vegetables or they can sell on the streets. The most common form of selling is just on the ground of the streets from which more people walk through.

New questions for the Administration regarding Food Flows: 1) Where does the food come from? 2) There are items that need cold chain?

To be developed

Goods and Capital Flows

The Kumbh Mela is a great venue for selling. There are several kind of good offered inside its boundaries, not only first need things like food or water, but also religious artifacts, like flowers candles and also clothes and handicrafts. However the people on the ground told me that inside the Kumbh the prices are twice expensive than in the city. For instance a Thali that inside the boundaries of the Kumbh costs 100 rupees outside 30 rupees Or a bottle of water inside costs 30 rupees while outside costs 15 rupees People on the ground told me that At the center of the Kumbh Mela there is a bank with ATM working 24 hours. So it is possible to get money without leaving the boundaries of the city.

From the part of the Mela administration there is a big investment to make before the Kumbh Mela happens. The Mela regulation dictates that for each Mela the heads of the department are required to anticipate with on financial year of advance incomes and expenditures that are sent to the Uttar Pradesh State government. The State government revises the budget and then approves its consolidation.

New questions for the Administration regarding Goods and Capital Flows: To be developed

Vehicles Flows

Network of roads bridges and parking zones.

There are several parking areas inside the Kumbh Mela, they are divided in perking for light vehicles and parking for heavy vehicles. People in the ground told me that for light vehicles like cars you are charged 50 rupees per day. However the movement inside the boundaries of the Kumbh Mela is not done by car. The most of the people use it as a mean for getting there and leaving the city. According the boat people, the local boatmen working at the Kumbh Mela are around 500 and the total amount of boat men working are around 3000. Several come from Varanasi and Haridwar that are cities, which are connected to Allahabad through the river. Boats are mostly used as means of transportation for crossing from one bank of the river to the other but also for reaching the Sangam, which is the most sacred place of the Triveni. Crossing the rivers is done in groups and is charged 100 rupees per person. Sizes of groups depend on the sizes of boats and they go from 10 to 30 people in capacity. There is also an industry of leisure associated to the boats and the Kumbh. Tourist people take boats from Varanasi and Haridwar and come in very long journeys to Allahabad to participate of the Kumbh. Coming from Varanasi to Allahabad takes five days and going from Allahabad to Varanasi takes two days. The difference in time is due to the fact that when coming your are against the sense of the water flow while on the other direction the water and the boat goes in the same direction.

New questions for the Administration regarding Vehicles Flows:

1) What are the design guidelines for the streets? Are the same that they have in Allahabad’s urban code or different? How do they anticipate the flows? 2) What is the Parking capacity of the Kumbh Area? 3) Is there public transportation inside the boundaries? To be developed

Waste Flows To be developed New questions for the Administration regarding Vehicles Flows:

1) What is the volume of waste generated per day? 2) Is the most of the waste organic? 3) Besides the campaign of no plastic inside the Kumbh Mela there is any other new or past initiative?

To be developed

People Flows The trains have around 600 (general quota) berths in sleeper class and 150 seats in third AC. The total number of trains from north that pass through New Delhi is 28. Therefore total available seats in sleeper class are 16800 (approx.) and 4200(approx.) in Third AC. In one day total passengers under the general quota will be (16800+4200) = 21000. Actual seats including all types of quotas are 12 X 72 X 28=24192 as most trains have 12 sleeper bogies. For Third AC, taking maximum 5 bogies per train, the berth count would be 5 X 72 X 28= 10000

During the last Kumbh Mela, the total visiting devotee count reached 70 million (70 X 10,00000) within a span of 30 days. We can therefore compute the total capacity of each train assuming that there are four general bogies to be 4*100*28 (500 is capacity of one bogie)= 11500 approx. (taking lager values)

Hence, people who can travel from Delhi to Allahabad in a day are: 24500+ 11500+10000= 46000. This is current maximum capacity. But it can be estimated that during the peak Kumbh Mela season, this capacity will increase threefold per train raising the traveler count to 1,35,000. The situation is one of a kind and can only happen in a country like India. To be developed

Sacred Flows Inside the Kumbh Mela area there are three temples, which are fix. There are a lot of sacred materials as flowers; food brought for offers, idols, scenes that come to the Kumbh area from all over the region. To be developed

Regulations and Control

Location of the police inside Kumbh area.

The following is based in the “United Provinces Mela Rules”, which is the act that provides basic rules for the Mela and designate power to officers. For every version of the Kumbh there is a new “governing” committee composed by no more than thirty people, from which only twelve can be official. There will be designated one Manager, appointed by the District Magistrate to act as Manager of the Festival. The District Magistrate is also the Chairman and the Officer in charge of the Mela acts as the secretary of the committee. According to the Mela regulation the committee should meet at least one time per year. The act of Mela regulation also gives power to the district magistrate to designate people to inspect at any time, day or night places for producing and selling goods or drinks for human consumption. The same act gives power of arresting to any police officer or any person authorized by the district magistrate without warrant to any person contravening the rules specified by the rule 13 of this act which are quoted in the next paragraph and also carry on any profession without license, evading tools or fees, using as urinal, latrine, rubbish dump, bathing place, washing clothes any spot different from the specified by the Mela administrator. Regarding Infectious diseases the act is very clear forbidding the access to Mela boundaries to any person, which present symptoms of infectious disease. The officer in charge has the power of ordering the person suffering of the infectious disease to leave the Mela boundaries or to take him to the hospital for a fixed amount of time. The same officer has the power of destroying any personal belonging of the infected person without any payable compensation to the affected.

If an epidemic breaks out the Mela boundaries the district magistrate should isolated it and gives warning to al the neighboring districts. The closing point of the act express the following: “District Magistrates Responsibility – The District Magistrate is generally responsible for the proper conduct of the Mela and it would be his duty to supervise the work of the officer in charge and to coordinate the activities of all departments working in the Mela area”

New questions for the Administration regarding Rules and Regulations:

1) There is only Allahabad police working during the Kumbh Mela or also police from other cities of Uttar Pradesh? 2) There is any authority designated to check the proper application of the Kumbh Planning? To be developed

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Contact List Students Nidhi Singh Rathore. Indian Student doing Thesis on the Kumbh Mela. +91 9913641441

Professor Srivastava (Vineet’s Student Father) Motilal Nehru Institute of Technology 91 9415216865 [email protected]

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