{"id":309179,"date":"2019-02-09T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309179"},"modified":"2019-02-09T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:23:39","slug":"fourth-bathing-festival-of-prayagraj-kumbh-on-february-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fourth-bathing-festival-of-prayagraj-kumbh-on-february-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth bathing festival of Prayagraj Kumbh on February 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308078 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela-696x477.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh-mela-613x420.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Third and Last Shahi Snan of Akharas at Prayagraj Kumbh will take place on February 10 on the occasion of Basant Panchami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It will be fourth bathing festival of the ongoing Kumbh. Prayagraj Mela Authority has claimed that about 2 crore devotees will take\u00a0holy dip on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mela administration has developed 8 km long 40 bathing ghats for devotees. Elaborate security arrangements are in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additional central para military forces are deployed in view of huge rush on the occasion. Two bridges on the rivers of Ganga and Yamuna will be closed for traffic and only old bridge on Yamuna will be opened for traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additional watch towers have been erected with public address system to regulate the rush of devotees. Mela administration has said that photography will not be allowed with 100 feet proximity of bathing ghats as per order of Allahabad High court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court has also directed that photos of bathing women will not be allowed to publish. All educational Institutions at Prayagraj have been closed for three days from today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mela administration has also deployed magistrates and police officers at sensitive places to avoid any congregation of devotees at one place in the Mela area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third and Last Shahi Snan of Akharas at Prayagraj Kumbh will take place on February 10 on the occasion of Basant Panchami. It will be fourth bathing festival of the ongoing Kumbh. Prayagraj Mela Authority has claimed that about 2 crore devotees will take\u00a0holy dip on the occasion. Mela administration has developed 8 km long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[10818,10817,5587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309180,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309179\/revisions\/309180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}