Prayagraj: Thousands of sanitation workers worked on Friday (March 7) to clean 20,000 tonnes of waste left by hundreds of millions of Hindu faithful after the mega-festival of Maha Kumbh in India.
The development of massive sanitation has been underway since the six -week gala ended last week in the city in the north of Prayagraj.
Hundreds of millions of people visited the city During the festival, according to government personalities, with mounds of thrown clothes, plastic bottles and other waste now throwing the ground.
“We have deployed 15,000 workers to eliminate some 20,000 tonnes of waste generated by the festival,” the Prayagraj municipal commissioner, Chandra Mohan Garg told AFP.
The Maha Kumbh Mela is the biggest milestone in the Hindu religious calendar, organized every 12 years in the Holy Confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Riverswati Rivers.
It is rooted in Hindu mythology, a battle between the deities and the demons for the control of a launcher containing the nectar of immortality.
Workers were also busy dismantling a temporary infrastructure, which includes 150,000 portable toilets.
In several places, the open areas have been used as a makeshift toilet, posing a challenge to the army of health personnel.
“Dedication to cleanliness … will continue to inspire efforts to keep Prayagraj, and its sacred rivers, clean for future generations,” the government said in a statement this week.
The Maha Kumbh Mela also testified to “the collective spirit of maintaining a cleaner and lasting environment,” he added.
