Thinking about event management??? Think about the biggest event on the planet earth. It’s nowhere else in the part of the world.... but it’s in India.
It is THE KUMBH MELA.
Here are some of the details which will tell you why it is the biggest event.
· Last “Maha Kumbh” held at “Prayag” (near Allahabad – Sangam of three rivers) in 2001 and next one will happen in 2013
· The event runs for 6 weeks
· The management has to build a temporary city around the place of the Sangam and that is around 17 sq km in area. This is happened to be the biggest temporary city in the world. (Not even Mecca-stay is bigger than this). Here all the area is covered with tents, mobile dispensaries, police stations and kitchens.
· Kitchens are running for 24x7 for around 2 million people for a day and they provide 2 time meal for free.
· Around 3 new temporary bridges are made for the devotees and administration
· 12 new temporary hospitals were setup and around 80,000 people had to visit them
· Around 7 crore people visited last time, and in the peak time 20,000 people are added to the city every hour
· Around 8000 policemen, 5000 para military force, 4000 other guards and around 18000 sweepers were working during that time
· There is a high risk of epidemic, stampede and military attack during the event.
· During the event people are making so much of pollution, that water of river Ganga are having 1000 times more bacteria than which is safe to drink. But people here were taking this water as the divine Amrit
· Some of the unexpected event like, attempt of mass suicide by Naga Bawas in protest of dirty water of river Ganga.
· Around 30,000 children and hundreds of old aged people are lost during the event and amazingly only around 250 are only lost forever.
Now think of handling this event!! There are only 3 people who are responsible for this event.
· SP – for security
· District Magistrate – for land and law related things
· District IAS Officer – for administration
So what do you think about managing this event?
wow amazing...
ReplyDeleteGosh, Indians are masters at event management...
Nice pool of info there sanky...
I never thought about Kumbh Mela as such a grand event management till now, you brought different perspective to look at...
ReplyDeleteOne more interesting thing about the mela 2001 is that the government supported many online services. “Virtual bath” was one of them to take the event to the devotes who couldn’t reach to Allahabad.
Really India is Incredible!!
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThere are many of these kinds in our country. this is just one taken as an example. you take any event organized in your locality or city, and you find there are lot of challenges there and people do it so easily. If we think to handle it, we need lot of paper work and excel sheets and still find lot of problems. I recommend if you want to become an event manager, go and take part in the events like "rath yatra" or "ganesh visarjan" or "muharram", and you will get lot of learning.
Great blog Sanket. I didnt knew so much about KUMBH MELA. Seriously there cannot be a better event management than this. The problem with we Indians is that we under estimate ourselves. There are so many great things in India which we are not aware of. Our India media, Indian education, Indian news they dont give due respect to the achievements and the good things in India. Anways if I continue it will be another blog..... Highly informative blog yaar.
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