प्रयागराज, यूपी: कुंभ मेले में भूले भटके लोगों को उनके परिजनों से मिलवाना हमेशा से एक बड़ी चुनौती रहा है। एक समाजसेवी संस्था बीते 71 साल से महाकुंभ में भूली भटकी महिलाओं के लिए सहायता केंद्र चला रही है। यह संस्था दिवंगत सांसद कमला बहुगुणा द्वारा शुरू की गई थी। रीता बहुगुणा जोशी ने पीढ़ियों से चली आ रही इस परंपरा को बरकरार रखा
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00:00It has always been a big challenge to get people who have lost their way in Kumbh Mela to meet their relatives.
00:07A social service organization has been running a support center for women who have lost their way in Mahakumbh for the past 71 years.
00:15This organization was started by Diwangat MP Kamla Bahuguna.
00:20Rita Bahuguna Joshi has maintained this tradition that has been going on for generations.
00:25We had around 850 people yesterday.
00:30We have a support group of 100-125 women.
00:36But yesterday we had around 150 women.
00:42We put them to sleep here last night.
00:46Yesterday there was a disturbance.
00:51We did not have much time to make announcements.
00:56We were not able to cover everyone.
00:59Since everyone needed a speaker, we did not have much time.
01:04But we handled it.
01:07Since last night, our team has been working on getting people's details.
01:12This is how we get people's details.
01:15Where they are from, who is their nearest representative, which officer stays with them.
01:23This is how we get all the details.
01:27Then we work on it from the next day.
01:29Today we have settled around 400 people.
01:33There are some people who come and meet us in 2-3 hours.
01:38After the announcement, they leave.
01:41Yesterday's number was very high.
01:43I will tell you a story of success.
01:45The volunteers who came here thinking that they have to serve here.
01:52Today they are in a good place.
01:5530% of the volunteers are government employees.
01:59They have taken leave without pay to do this work.
02:03And they are supporting us.
02:06This is a completely self-oriented, deemed organization.
02:10We have taken this campus from the government.
02:13We wanted a bigger one.
02:15But we could not get our place because of Kumbh.
02:18We have taken this place and some items from the government.
02:23On the Bhagadad in Mahakumbh, the volunteer Swapnil Dvivedi said
02:28that the administration is doing its duties very well.
02:32On that night, a bigger incident could have happened.
02:35But as it is being shown, a bigger incident has not happened.
02:38I do not understand.
02:40Everything was very systematic.
02:42As far as we are concerned, we are in a very prime location.
02:45And we understand that Prayagraj Pradikaran has done a very good management.
02:52And the strategy that the government made together,
02:57we have also been a part of it.
02:59We were also kept in the meeting.
03:01It was very good.
03:03The entire crowd, which was the target of 10 crores,
03:06was divided into three parts, which I understand.
03:12Sangam Lower, Sangam Upper and Arhel.
03:16It was divided into these three parts.
03:18It was a very good strategy.
03:20Now, if something small or big happens,
03:23then nothing can be said for it.
03:26I am the closest to Sangam.
03:28This camp is going on.
03:30When I go out at around 2.30-3.00 in the night,
03:34when people knock on the door,
03:36that brother, there is someone, we have to make an announcement, this is that.
03:40So I went out.
03:42So my distance from Sangam is about 1 km.
03:45It is a little less than 1 km.
03:47But no news could have reached me.
03:50That such a big thing has happened.
03:52Because the thing was not very big.
03:55Very big thing.
03:57However much you are hyping it,
03:59it was not such a big thing.
04:01How did we get the effect?
04:03When people started looking without clothes.
04:06People passed from here and they were without clothes.
04:09No one had slippers on their feet.
04:11No bag was in anyone's hand.
04:13In the fair, people carry a tree on their head.
04:15No one has anything.
04:16The crowd is coming back.
04:18So it felt like, at that time it felt like something has happened.
04:21So you understand, even at a distance of 1 km,
04:24no side effect, I mean, no after effect,
04:27how big the incident would have been.
04:29So the incident was not very big.
04:31But since Kumbh is in everyone's eyes,
04:33so this incident was seen to be big.
04:35But yes, it is certain that something or the other,
04:38from Baghdad or something or the other, whatever happened,
04:40because of that, the pressure of tomorrow,
04:42the pressure of tomorrow was very high.
04:44People were worried.
04:46But very well managed by the administration.
04:50The administration managed it so well
04:52that all the people who were coming,
04:54I asked for force.
04:56I immediately got the force.
04:58I had 4 constables, guards.
05:00After that, I got 2-3 more guards.
05:02Immediately they managed all these things,
05:04supported us.
05:06We were also completely affected.
05:08And today it is in front of you that
05:10there is not much pressure in our camp.
05:12Volunteers who came to help them run this aid center
05:15are also committed to reuniting the separated ones day and night.
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