Kanaujiya Ashok Kumar, Tiwari Vineet
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh India.
Natl Acad Sci Lett. 2022;45(3):263-273. doi: 10.1007/s40009-022-01114-w. Epub 2022 Apr 7.
The Kumbh Mela is the largest religious and spiritual mass gatherings on the Earth. In this way, it remains a source of fascination for vast numbers of Hindus throughout the world. Around 240 million pilgrims participated during Kumbh Mela 2019. The Crowd management and the strategy for Security and surveillance have become a big challenge for such huge gatherings. This paper tries to find out the various risk factors and its management. It examines the role and responsibilities of various stakeholders in crowd management. Despite of some difficulties like lack of knowledge of number of people, crowd psychology and its behaviour pattern, this paper provides a comprehensive approach for risk analysis, preparedness, management and mitigation. The purpose is to make spiritual mass gathering events incidence free and enhance user experience by applying design thinking approach. Although this paper tried to cover all the aspects of crowd management and strategies for security and surveillance during mass gathering events, still many more approaches are there which can be further explored. The mega tent city that accommodates nearly millions of pilgrims in the river bed is significant not only for India, but also for mass gathering research at international level to draw policy. This provides the multifunctional issues to study the mega crowd events. This provides the opportunity to generate the field level evidence and document base for disaster management.
大壶节是地球上规模最大的宗教和精神盛会。正因如此，它一直吸引着世界各地大量的印度教徒。在2019年大壶节期间，约有2.4亿朝圣者参与其中。对于如此盛大的集会而言，人群管理以及安保与监控策略已成为一项巨大挑战。本文试图找出各种风险因素及其管理方法。它审视了不同利益相关者在人群管理中的角色与责任。尽管存在一些困难，比如对人数、人群心理及其行为模式缺乏了解，但本文提供了一种全面的风险分析、准备、管理和缓解方法。目的是通过应用设计思维方法，使宗教盛会活动无事故发生，并提升用户体验。尽管本文试图涵盖人群管理以及大型集会活动期间安保与监控策略的所有方面，但仍有许多方法有待进一步探索。建在河床、可容纳近百万朝圣者的巨型帐篷城不仅对印度意义重大，在国际层面对于大型集会研究以制定政策也意义重大。这提供了研究大型人群活动的多功能问题。这为生成实地证据和灾害管理文档库提供了契机。
