Difficulty in distribution of milk and milk products at Maha Kumbha Kshetra

– Yadnesh Sawant, Special Correspondent

Prayagraj, 31 ^st January – Milk suppliers are finding difficulty in distribution of milk as a few roads to reach Kumbha Kshetra have been closed. It is causing problems in getting milk and milk products at Kumbha Kshetra. Mr Pankaj, a milk supplier who daily supplies 3,000 litres of milk at Maha Kumbha Kshetra and other suppliers narrated their difficulties to ‘Sanatan Prabhat’. Many stalls selling milk and milk products were closed on 31.01.2025. It was also observed that the stalls at Shri Jhandewala Devi Mandir supplying tea and snacks to devotees every day were also closed. They need 5,500 litres of milk every day.

Difficulty due to closing of roads

Milk suppliers have been allocated sectors at Maha Kumbha Kshetra as he supplied milk to Sector 4 and Sector 6. Thousands of litres of milk are supplied to stalls selling milk, and to camps of Sadhus-Seers as per their demand. A tanker of milk has the capacity to store 7000 litres of milk and around 25-30 such tankers have been engaged at Kumbha Kshetra for milk supply as that muck milk is required daily at Kumbha Kshetra. Owing to huge crowds and closing of roads in few areas, our vehicles are not able to reach the sectors and causing problems, informed Mr Pankaj, one of the milk suppliers. He appealed to us to take up this issue.

The owner of ‘Amul’ stall no. 6A in Sector 6 stated that the administration has collected thousands of rupees by way of rent from us; but the stall has to be kept closed due to lack of milk supply. A litre of milk costs Rs 90/-. In the absence of supply as the vehicles were not reaching there, they were paying Rs 150/- for a litre.

Roads are not closed but vehicle traffic is temporarily stopped – Prayagraj District Collector

The media spreading news about the closing of roads till 04.02.2025 is not correct. We have re-started the vehicular traffic from 30.01.2025. We diverted the traffic on the occasion of ‘Mauni Amavasya’. There will not be barricades on 31.01.2025, 01.02.2025 and 04.02.2025. Only on 02.02.2025 and 03.02.2025, the traffic will be diverted to other roads, informed Prayagraj District Collector Ravindra Kumar through a video.