Pilgrims are parking their vehicles at Kanpur, Fatehpur, Etawah, Mirzapur, Reewa, and Pratapgrah and catching trains for onward journeys. This has brought some respite to traffic bottlenecks on all routes leading to Prayagraj, but has created extra pressure on railway stations in Sangam city. Cops armed with loud hailers are deputed at static points to guide returning devotees to move towards the right path. The volume of the returning crowd has increased manifold at Prayagraj railway junction in the past four days as more devotees are preferring to catch trains to return to their native towns. District police have implemented four crowd control schemes to ensure the safety and security of devotees, says DCP (City) Abhishek Bharti. He added, \”Cops are maintaining strict surveillance on entry and exit routes, and additional police teams have also been deployed atstatic points\”
