PRAYAGRAJ:  , Thousands of sanitation workers were toiling on Friday ( Mar 7 ) to clean up 20, 000 tonnes of waste left behind by hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees after India’s Maha Kumbh Mela mega-festival.
The large hygiene travel has been afoot since the six-week dinner drew to a shut last week in the northeastern city of Prayagraj.
Hundreds of millions of people visited the city during the event according to federal statistics, with mounds of discarded clothes, plastic containers and other waste then littering the premises.
” We have deployed 15, 000 staff to clear up some 20, 000 kilograms of waste generated from the festival”, Prayagraj provincial director Chandra Mohan Garg told AFP.
The Maha Kumbh Mela is the single biggest step on the Hindu religious timeline, staged every 12 times at the sacred convergence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the magical Saraswati river.
It is rooted in Hindu myth, a fight between gods and spirits for manage of a cup containing the honey of immortality.
Employees were also active dismantling a momentary system, which includes 150, 000 portable toilet.
In some places, opened areas were used as makeshift toilets, posing a problem to the military of hygiene staff.
” The devotion towards cleaning… will continue to inspire efforts to keep Prayagraj, and its spiritual river, clean for years to come”, the authorities said in a speech this year.
The Maha Kumbh Mela was likewise a bible to the” social nature of maintaining a cleaner and more responsible surroundings”, it added.