Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam-World is one family
Our Correspondent / New Delhi
Delegates from seventy countries including the United States, Canada, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, El Salvador, Paraguay, Turkey, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Belgium, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Gambia, Gabon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Indonesia, Angola, Egypt, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso, Libya, Malaysia, Palestine, will be coming for the major event.
Last December, the minister of State External Affairs Ministry, Gen VK Singh along with Heads of Missions of over 70 countries participating at Kumbh2019 collectively hoisted their nations’ flags in Prayagraj Kumbh Mela site where 15 crore people are expected to congregate.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a note verbale to the Heads of Mission (HOM) — Ambassadors and High Commissioners, invited them to the city to show them the arrangements for the mega event.
As part of Indian ethos and traditions, the note added “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family) and to display this special area is being created at the event which will host the country of the participating HOMs, throughout the time of the event.
The Kumbh Mela draws tens of millions of pilgrims from all over the world. The congregation includes ascetics, saints, spiritual seekers, pilgrims and tourists from all walks of life.
The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has put up four floating terminals — at Kilaghat, Saraswati Ghat, Naini Bridge and Sujawan Ghat, for smooth movement of the people to the pilgrimage site at Triveni Sangam (the meeting point of the three holy rivers).
Mini cruises CL Kasturba and SL Kamla and deployment of small ships for ferrying the pilgrims has been organised too.
National Waterways-1 (Prayagraj to Haldia), and this includes the efforts by IWAI to make the Prayagraj -Varanasi stretch of the Ganga navigable has been done.