Abstract: In India, the mass gathering occurs during the festivals and the religious Mela’s which result in collection of numbers of people at a particular place is very high for very short time. The human stampede at this place is result in loss of life and the loss of property. There are two major cases of stampede is stampede of KumbhMela held in 1954 and 2003 at Allahabad and Nashik respectively. In this study the details of the route used by pilgrims are discussed and studied. The stampede event occurred in last KumbhMela is due to only a congested route and can be rectify by widening the routes of the pilgrims. The traffic coming from the Dhule, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Pune, Trimbakeshwar, Peth, Dindori, and Traffic from Nashik City itself is managed and moved in proper way to avoid the congestion and to avoid the any unwanted event during the KumbhMela. Also a detailed action plan for the stampede event management is discussed in the report. The project will helpful to the organizations that managing and involved in the preparation, operation and control the crowd in KumbhMela.
Keywords: KumbhMela, Nashik, Stampede, Action Plan, Event Management.
Title: Preparation of Future Action Plan for Kumbh Mela: Nashik 2015
Author: Mr. Sachin Suresh Kare
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
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