Prayagraj: Digital technology proved to be of great help in reuniting family members who got separated from their loved ones due to the crowds in the vast mela campus this year. CCTV cameras and social media also assisted volunteers of the Bhoole Bhatke Shivir (lost& found camp) in reuniting 5,143 adults and 125 children throughout the 57 days of the Magh Mela and brought a major relief to the families and mela police authorities.
This year, more women went missing and were later ‘reunited’ with their family members than men. As per the numbers available, a total of 1,880 male and 3,263 female devotees who visited the mela campus were temporarily separated from their families before they were reunited.
Prayagraj: Elderly citizens are making a beeline at government hospitals and community health centres to get themselves vaccinated in the district.
The officials of the health department, apart from government hospitals, have taken up Covid-19 vaccination at all 20 Community Health Centres (CHCs) and 61 New Primary Health centres (New PHCs) from Friday in the rural pockets of the district to administer vaccine among beneficiaries above 60 years of age and those above 45 years having co-morbidities.
On Friday, beneficiaries especially elderly citizens in sizable number arrived at all government hospitals, 20 community health centres and 61 new PHCs to get themselves vaccinated.
After vaccination, the senior beneficiaries appreciated the efforts of the health department for taking up the vaccination drive in all urban, semi-urban and rural areas which made it easier for them to get vaccinated without any hiccups.
Prayagraj: Given the Mahashivratri snan scheduled on Thursday, mela police and city police have chalked out a security plan for the safety and security of pilgrims and devotees arriving at Sangam - the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati to take holy dip on the fifth and the last snan of Magh Mela. The Magh Mela will end with the Mahashivratri snan on Thursday. Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the snan along with temples located near the mela campus.
While mela police have worked on crowd and traffic management to ease the rush of devotees in and around mela campus, city police have reviewed security arrangements to tackle the influx of crowd who would be thronging at prominent five lord Shiva temples of the city to offer prayers on the occasion of Mahashivratri.
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday dismissed an election petition challenging the election of Ajeet Pal Singh as MLA from Sinkandra legislative assembly constituency of Kanpur Dehat in the year 2017. Ajeet Pal Singh is working as minister for state (IT department) of Uttar Pradesh government. He was a candidate of BJP in this election.
Dismissing the election petition filed by one Seema Sachan, a candidate of Samajwadi Party, Justice DK Singh-I observed, “The counsel for the petitioner has miserably failed in proving as to how the said non-providing of the copy of the required document to polling agents by the presiding officers has resulted in materially affecting the election result of the returned candidate. It has also come on record that the margin of defeat is very huge as the winning candidate has won this election by securing 73,325 votes while the petitioner has just secured 61,455 votes and, therefore, it shows difference of more than 10,000 votes.”