Difficult to make sure social distancing at ghats: Kumbh Mela official

A stampede-like state of affairs could come up if police attempt to implement social distancing at ghats in the course of the ongoing Kumbh Mela, Inspector General Sanjay Gunjyal stated.
“We are continuously appealing to people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour. But due to the huge crowd, it is practically not possible to issue challans today. It is very difficult to ensure social distancing at ghats,” he instructed information company ANI. “A stampede-like situation may arise if we would try to enforce social distancing at ghats so we are unable to enforce social distancing here.”
On Monday, a whole lot of devotees took a dip in river Ganga at Har Ki Pauri in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar on the event of the second ‘shahi snan’ in Kumbh.
Gunjyal stated, “General public will be allowed here till 7 am. After that, this area will be reserved for akharas”.
Uttarakhand reported 1,333 recent Covid instances on Sunday, taking the full variety of the instances within the state to 1,08,812.
Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Police is utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to zoom in on these not carrying masks.
Officials stated over 350 CCTV cameras have been put in at completely different places within the mela space, with about 100 of those outfitted with sensors that generate an alert when the digicam captures the picture of an individual with no masks. Being deployed for the primary time on the Kumbh mela in Haridwar, the AI-equipped cameras additionally generate an alert when websites recognized as weak for stampede — Har-ki-Pauri, Subhash ghat, Brahmakund, Malviya Dweep — see the next crowd density. The cameras are additionally getting used to maintain a rely of automobiles at parking tons and to identify objects mendacity unattended for greater than 10 minutes.