The Assam Government’s mega integrated effort with the Guwahati Municipal Board (GMC),district administration and various volunteer organizations have headed towards overall success in conducting ‘Amubabchi Grand Annual Mela’ of India with great ease for pilgrims’ wonderful experience visiting here despite certain setbacks.
The municipality board this year 2019 has come out with a new motivation “The Best Can Also Be Improved” new slogan to give an edge to this ritually followed Ambubachi traditional festival from century as today Kamakhya committee along with Assam Tourism department have to attend to near about 30 Lakh devotees.
Guwahati (Public Health Engineerin) PHE Department’s Engineer Kishore Kumar Talukdar during the duty of Ambubachi Mela survey on safe drinking and lodging arrangement for pilgrims under various camps in the city stated, “The figures of pilgrim population have increased and so their safe arrangement from food and lodging have intensified. Especially Ambubachi pilgrims come in groups with less single figures due to which threat to women and children is less following recent miscreant acts.”
Currently the Ambubachi welfare groups have intensified their clean drive to avert the trigger of health hazard with successful implementation of 100 dustbins and engagement of paid to volunteer laborers to make the route to Nilachal Hilltop clean despite sea of crowds during the phase of four days Annual traditional event on earth fertility in Guwahati.
Especially for the sea of on road pilgrims special arrangement for toilets and bathrooms along with camps have been installed to keep the city open-defecation free as it is a major hurdle in the cleanliness drive during peak hours of this traditional four day event.
Under Assam’s district administration regulatory body there have been successful implementation of 35 modular toilets, 545 latrines and 275 bathrooms cum 30 toilets at the rest camps staged at the famous city commercial point Fancy Bazar, Naharbari, Pandu and Baripara. Inside Kamakhya precinct there are special complex for quality free food lodging to the people who are actively involved in secure Ambubachi Mela festivity.
Since the Guwahati Railway station is near to the Central Jail camp in Fancy Bazar so it is considered to be the biggest among all the camp set ups. According to PHE Engineer Kishore Kumar Talukdar this year 2019 has accounted 20,000 plus Ambubachi pilgrims in the Central Jail camp of Fancy Bazar area itself.
Former Senior Guwahati Municipal Officer, Vinod Kumar Hazarika who is a regular visitor of Maa Kamakhya temple on every annual Ambubachi Mela event had stated, “There is not much hazard for weaker groups like children, female and aged people following the sensational beheaded incident as special arrangement has been made by the State Transport department authority for free vehicular access for these pilgrims to the shrine precinct, without making them travel on foot from the base of Nilachal hill under present extreme condition of heat. This transport facility remains active from 10 p.m. to morning 10 a.m. as this route remains banned from any vehicular movement during peak hours of Ambubachi Mela.”
On Pilgrim’s health arrangement, GMC Former Senior official marked, “There are various volunteer health camp organizations including famous Rama Krishna Ashram health camp and government based medical relief camps to attend to any minor to emergency cases during the phase of Ambubachi festivity.” Especially dehydration and heat related health issues are more than to any other diseases for Ambubachi Mela visitors to Maa Kamakhya Temple. So the PHE department of Guwahati has initiated major free safe water drinking arrangement by delivering water pouches for instant easy access.
NEICSpecial Ambubachi Report : SUMI BORA
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