City’s major govt hosps to be upgraded for Maha Kumbh

Prayagraj: Following the mega preparations being done in view of organising Maha Kumbh at the Sangam City in 2025, all the major hospitals of Prayagraj will be upgraded before the mega religious event. Under the initiative, the number of beds will be increased in these hospitals along with emergency equipment.
While reviewing the proposed works related to the religious amalgamation at Circuit House on Saturday, Maha Kumbh Mela Adhikari Vijay Kiran Anand sought a comprehensive plan from the chief medical superintendents of SRN Hospital, Tej Bahadur Sapru (Beli) Hospital, Moti Lal Nehru (Colvin) Divisional Hospital and Dufferin Hospital in this regard. Administration of these hospitals have been given two days to look into the availability of land and how much expansion is possible of each of the hospital.
The next meeting of the Apex Committee for Mahakumbh-2025 is proposed on January 18 at Lucknow. In this meeting, projects regarding 30 roads of Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA), 25 projects of Public Works Department (PWD) and five projects of Tourism Department are all set to be put up for approval.
“We have had a meeting to review the Maha Kumbh works. The proposals, which were made in the apex committee meeting recently have been discussed along with the proposals that would be kept in the next meeting”, said Kumbh Mela Adhikari Vijay Kiran Anand. The Kumbh Mela Adhikari in meeting also inquired about the proposals to be kept in this meeting. In the meeting which lasted for about two-and-a-half hours, information was taken about the projects on which in-principle agreement was reached in the previous meeting.
The Kumbh Mela Adhikari asked all the departments to prepare detailed project reports (DPRs) of the proposed works and send them to their headquarters at the earliest. After getting the consent, the Urban Development Department could issue the requisite government orders and the work can be started at the earliest.
Officials have been asked to first of all to start development works related to roads and tourism, especially that need longer duration of time to complete. Officers including ADM Dayanand Prasad, ADM Vivek Chaturvedi among others were present in the meeting.
The officials also inspected Noorullah Road. The road leading to the Prayagraj Junction station will be widened before the Mahakumbh. After inspecting it, it was seen how much scope for this is available, senior district officials shared.
The route to the Nagavasuki temple, which was constructed ready for the Kumbh-2019, will also be widened.