2. PRESENTED BY….
BIJAY CHAKRAVARTY
BIBEK ROY
SURAJ PRATAP SINGH
VIKASH KUMAR
KAUSHIK KUMAR
Students of Information Technology
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4. PILGRIM’S
PROGRESS AT
KUMBH MELA
Kumbh mela has become world’s
Largest congregation of religious
pilgrims with involvement of more than
100 million pilgrims in the year of
2013.
5. It’s a mass Hindu Pilgrimage of faith in which
Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river.
Kumbh means Pitcher and Mela means fair in
hindi .
It held for about one and half month .
6. Kumbh Mela held every third year
at one of the four places by
rotation-
Haridwar
Allahabad(Prayag)
Nasik
Ujjain
9. Main attractions of
Pilgrims
The major events of the
festival :-
Ritual bathing
Naga Sanyasis
Mauni Amavasya
Triveni sangam
10. Aspects of such a
huge pilgrimage
1. • Positive
2. • Negative
11. Positive Aspects
People’s belief in god.
Increment in number of
foreign visitors.
Way of income for Priests.
12. People’s belief in god
By seeing that huge pilgrimage
progresses we can say that
people has undying faith on god.
That’s the sign of Indian culture
and community.
13. The main attraction for the foreign
visitors are the undying
dedication of Hindu pilgrims.
The second most attraction is
Mauni Amavasya at the maha
kumbh.
Increment
in number
of foreign
visitors
14. Way of income for the
priests
It’s a great way to earn
money for the priests from
the devotees and foreign
visitors who are willing to
pay anything in the name of
god
16. Business
in the
name of
God
Big businesses are carried out in
the name of god.
Due to immense faith in god people
are ready to pay anything in the
name of god
17. Stampedes at Kumbha Mela
Two major stampedes were-
Stampede of 1954
Stampede of 2013
18. Stampede
of 1954
On 3rd Feb. 1954, more than thousand
people were killed, 2000 were injured
and over 200 people were counted
missing because of the stampede
broke out at Kumbh mela
19. Stampede of
2013
On 10th Feb. 2013, a stampede broke
out at the train station in
Allahabad, U.P, killing more than 36
people and injuring more than 40
people.
20. Misuse Of Transport
Many pilgrims travel in train without
ticket making huge loss to Indian
Railways.
Misuse of parking space allotted to
pilgrims also occur.
21. Accidents
One Killed, Five Injured In Maha Kumbh
Mela Fire Accident - 2013 - 02 – 15
Several reports of road accidents cases
are also there.
