Prasagraj: Maga 2022 upcoming, scheduled to start from January 14, all will witness his face with the Ganges.
Strong river currents on the river, which has shifted towards the west (towards City), erodes the bank and has resulted in a decrease in soil that must be allocated for fortune tellers and religious organizations.
Mela’s authorities witnessed the challenge, similar to what they faced in 2004 where ‘Sangam’ from both rivers had shifted to the east forcing people to walk far to take holy sauce in Sangam.
To fight sustainable erosion on the banks of the river, the Mela government works day and night.
“The river currents are strong enough and our experts work tirelessly to minimize erosion.
We keep a tight vigil on the current and the situation is under control,” said Mela Adhikari for Magh Mela 2022, Shesh Mani Pandey.
Carpenter’s experts, known as’ Bind-Mallaha, made crates, structures made by bamboo and tree trunks, day and night and put the same at the selected points carefully in the banks that cause erosion.
“We put two chests one behind the other and both were tied with a strong rope.
It was filled with a gunny bag that had sand banks”, told a senior official of the flood control department working at the location of erosion.
Because of the strong currents, Mela’s authority was struggling with noon to control soil erosion between Treveni and Mahavir’s pontoon bridge.
JCB is pressed into the service that makes points to correct crates to face erosion.
River erosion is not new, but this year’s difference is the fact that there is an increase in water levels in the river, compared to previous years, and because of shallow ganga (not as deep as Yamuna), strong current.
But, at the same time, more water also means a clean river, which is a welcome development “, said the head of Mathematics Tikarmafi, Mahant’s day of Chaitanya Bhramchari, who is known for fighting for the causes of clean ganga.” This has become challenging for Mela authorities for Control the river and with ganga known because of the strong and unpredictable direction today, there needs to be sustainable efforts to face challenges “, said Someshwar Pandey, Purohit in Sangam.