Bhatka' camps, announcements on loudspeakers to police assistance centres, here's how Mela authorities are reuniting families separated in the mela.

The six-week-long Maha Kumbh Mela has begun in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, with at least 40 crore people expected to gather over the next 45 days. Devotees will bathe at the confluence of three sacred rivers—the Ganga,

The Maha Kumbh Mela has commenced in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on. The 45-day religious gathering is significant for Hindu pilgrims and devotees as the event marks the completion of 12 Kumbh Mela cycles,

Millions of Hindus have arrived at Prayagraj in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for the Maha Kumbh Mela, touted as one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. Over the next three weeks,

the 45-day event features sacred baths, religious ceremonies, and technological innovations to ensure safety and convenience.

While the Kumbh Mela festival is ordinarly held every three years, rotating between several holy cities on the banks of these rivers, the Maha Kumbh Mela occurs only once every 12 years. Maha means “great”, and the event attracts the most devotees because it is considered the most auspicious and holy in the cycle.

Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering of humanity as it showcases religion, spirituality, tourism and crowd management.

On the banks of the Ganges River, the largest gathering of people in the world began in India’s Prayagraj, in northern Uttar Pradesh state.