Organizing the six-week celebration has required massive arrangements in the city of Prayagraj.
The Indian city of Prayagraj has been quite busy for a good month. The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage festival that is expected to be attended by 450 million people over the next six weeks, began today, Monday.
The party and its huge number of people required a lot of arrangements. For example, a tent village with more than 100,000 accommodation places and more than 150,000 temporary toilets have been built in the city.
Tens of thousands of surveillance cameras have been installed in the area, in addition to which more than 100,000 employees of the security sector and paramilitary forces are monitoring the event.
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Source: Reuters