In one week from now, the largest religious festival ever happened on this earth will begin in Prayagraj.
The Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati Sangam will witness an unprecedented show of devotion, faith, and humanity.
A thread on what it means.
First the context!
Mahakumbh is organized every 12 years at 4 places ~ Prayagraj, Ujjain, Nashik & Haridwar.
Why 4 places? It is because during Samudra Manthan, the Amrit drops from the Kumbh fell in these 4 locations.
Why 12 years? Because Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit around the Sun.
Prayagraj Kumbh is organized when Jupiter is in Taurus, the Sun, Moon are in Capricorn.
Now the scale.
This year's Maha Kumbh is special as planetary alignment are auspicious which happens once in 144 years only:
🔸4,000 hectares Mela Area
🔸40 crores devotees expected to come
🔸Rs 6,382 crores budget allocated by the government
🔸Mela Kshetra is declared as 76th district of UP with all administrative powers of a DM given to Mela Adhikari.
Some big events, major achievements and initiatives that have potential to change the socio-economic conditions of Uttar Pradesh forever.
Here is a thread on flashback 2024. Read on:
The year started on a truly auspicious note with the Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ram Lalla Sarkar in Ayodhya.
A civilizational wound was finally healed ~ a 500 years wait of Hindu Samaj finally over. Bharat celebrated the day like an early Deepawali festival and entire Ayodhya was lit with millions of Diyas on 22 January 2024.
Over 5 lakh people had Darshan of Shri Ram Lalla on the very first day of the Ram Mandir opening. Since then, more than 100 million devotees have visited Ayodhya.
Ram Mandir has started changing the economic face of Ayodhya and its people as well. The city got a swanky railway station, an international airport and many other infrastructure projects.
The transformation continues in coming years.
Jai Shri Ram🚩
2024 was a great year for One District, One Medical College!
As many as 16 medical colleges became operational this year ~ a maximum for any state since independence.
Of these, 13 are state medical colleges and 3 developed on PPP mode with viability gap finding by the government.
With these medical colleges, 1650 additional MBBS seats were added in the state.
Districts which got new medical college this year:
As PM Modi inaugurates Kushinagar International Airport today, let’s see how Yogi Sarkar has transformed UP into ‘Airport Pradesh’ in last 4.5 years:
In 2016, UP had 2 functional airports ~ Lucknow & Varanasi. Today, it has 9 functional airports ~ 3 international & 6 domestic.
Prayagraj Airport:
Prayagraj Airport’s new terminal was completed & inaugurated in 2019. Today, there are 11 daily flights from this airport. Recently, it achieved the landmark of 12000 flights & 1 million passengers served since the launch of new terminal.
Gorakhpur Airport:
Gorakhpur Airport too got a new terminal building, which was inaugurated in September 2018 ~ phase 1 & 2 of expansion plan completed. Now, it's the fastest growing airport of North India & has 12 daily flights up from only one flight few years back.
Few Highways-Expressways COMPLETED in UP in last four years-
Delhi-Meerut Expressway:
🔸82 kms, built at ₹8,346
🔸14 lanes, India's widest expressway
🔸Cuts travel time from Delhi to Meerut to 45 minutes against earlier 3 hours
🔸Decades long public demand fulfilled in 2021
Eastern Peripheral Expressway:
🔸137 kms, built at a cost of ₹11,000 crores
🔸6 laned from Kundli to Palwal via Ghaziabad & Noida
🔸Max speed limit 120 kmph, India's fastest expressway
🔸Stuck since 2006, fast-tracked in 2015 & completed in record 500 days in 2018
Purvanchal Expressway:
🔸340 kms, 6 lane access controlled connecting Lucknow to Ghazipur
🔸Built at a cost of ₹22,494 crores
🔸Huge boost for economically backward Purvanchal
🔸Foundation laid in July'18, work completed, formal inauguration can happen anytime soon