The famous Harvard University has invited Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to share his experience on hosting a successful religious congregation Mahakumbh 2013 which lasted for 55 days and attended by millions of pilgrimage across the world.
Harvard University has also invited state urban development minister Mohammad Azam Khan to attend the lecture and share his experience on April 25.
A 50-member team consists of faculties and students from Harvard University had travelled to Allahabad during Mahakumbh mela in January to study the processes to host successful Kumbh Mela.
“The very fact that to accommodate the millions of pilgrims who journey to Allahabad to bathe in the sacred confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, the Uttar Pradesh government created a temporary city in the flood plain of the river – that is worth a study,” a faculty member told IANS.
“The city, laid out on a grid, was constructed and then “deconstructed” in a matter of weeks. Within the grid, multiple aspects of contemporary urbanism come to fruition, including spatial zoning, an electricity grid, food and water distribution, physical infrastructure construction, mass vaccinations, public gathering spaces, and nighttime social events,” the member further said.
“Among other things, the group explored how the temporal, fleeting events, including the routes and the physical structure of settlements functioned together and how the systems that emerged could be applied to sustainable urban design in other nations and contexts,” Ashok Sharma, the media in-charge of Kumbh told IANS.
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