DEHRADUN: Senior officials of Uttarakhand authorities have disregarded reports that claimed the pilgrim headcount of all shahi snans has been revised out of 49 lakh to 21 lakh as promised in certain media reports lately, stating that”after an official quote is published, it can’t be revised, and” reports Gaurav Talwar.
Denying earning any downward revision of the amount of individuals attending Kumbh Mela, Sanjay Gunjyal, Inspector General (IG), Kumbh, stated,”The 3 shahi snan times that dropped through the educated period of their one-month Kumbh this season saw over 34 lakh individuals carrying a holy dip in Ganga.
” Offering a break, he stated that 21.
2 lakh people bathed in the lake on April 12 about Somwati Amavasya, 13.
5 lakh on Mesh Sankranti on April 14 and above 25,000 individuals on Chaitra Purnima on April 27.
When asked about the process employed in counting the amount of pilgrims, Gunjyal stated that”a artificial intelligence alternative armed with sophisticated detectors, together with a count of the catastrophic amount of vehicles in border check posts and parking lots, has been utilized for project the head count” The government’s refusal came after several press reports claimed the official attendance figure for the period between April 12 and 14 — after two important snans happened — was considerably less than that which was claimed from the mela government at that moment.
According to official statistics, backed by Kumbh Police, pilgrim footfall had been 21.
2 lakh on April 12, 4.
5 lakh on April 13 and 13.
5 lakh on April 14.
The mela government nevertheless had promised shortly after the shahi snans which 31 lakh individuals (maybe not 21.
2 lakh) chose a dip on April 12.
Commenting about the disparity in amounts for its April 12 shahi snan, DGP Ashok Kumar explained,”It appears that the amount of 31 lakh published on April 12 was a mixed figure of the amount of pilgrims assembled in Haridwar on April 10, 11 and 12.
Nevertheless, this wouldn’t lead to any alteration in the total amount of pilgrim headcount published by the authorities for its Kumbh Mela span”