The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj will see elaborate security arrangements, with 50,000 police personnel deployed to deal with potential challenges such as terror threats, cyber attacks, rogue drones and human trafficking. Confirming this, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar said that he is personally monitoring the preparations to ensure a safe environment for the event. He said that around 45 crore pilgrims are expected to attend this mega event.
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The DGP further said that this year’s Kumbh aims to be highly digital, with law enforcement taking advantage of advanced technologies like AI-enabled cameras and drones. Specific strategies exist to effectively identify and disable rogue drones. Additionally, in view of the increasing threat of cyber crime, the police are implementing stronger measures to protect pilgrims from cyber criminal activities, Kumar said. The DGP said that ahead of the Mahakumbh, the police force has hired a team of private experts from the Future Crime Research Foundation to protect the pilgrims from cyber frauds and crimes and has tied up with IIT Kanpur for cyber world patrolling. For the first time, we have established a cyber police station in the Mahakumbh area. We have involved national agencies like I4C and CERT-IN for cyber patrolling and analyzing cyber security networks. They will also work on data security.
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Regarding crowd management and traffic planning which will be one of the most important aspects in the fair, Kumar said the traffic movement will be closely monitored and effective measures will be taken at the source of congestion. We have installed 2,700 CCTV cameras, which also include cameras with AI capability. Parameters are fed into them to give alerts about crowd density, movement, flow, barricade jumping, fire and smoke alerts.