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Ahead of Maha Kumbh 2025, IAS officer Chandra Mohan Garg transformed Prayagraj's dump yards into lush forests using the Miyawaki technique to improve air quality.

The task was to identify walls, bridges, buildings, water tanks and other structures, which could host wall art and transform the place into India’s first-ever street art city!

With almost 150 volunteers spread across the mela grounds, the camp has reunited more than 22,000 children and 12,50,000 people in the last 73 years- all for free!

In light of the Allahabad Kumbh Mela, the Uttar Pradesh State Government has proposed to change the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj.

Nashik-based teenager Nilay Kulkarni has created an unique innovation that can help prevent heartbreaking stampedes like the ones at Kumbh Mela and Elphinstone station.

“They are experts for such mega events. Keeping the place clean and tidy when VVIPs, religious leaders and lakhs of devotees attend the event is a big challenge.”

Get My Parking is a smart parking Android application that helps people find parking spaces even before they reach their destination.

India-born scientist Ramesh Raskar was awarded $ 500,000, one of the world’s largest single cash awards for invention, for his path breaking work on an ultra-fast imaging camera that can see around corners, eyecare solutions and a camera that can read closed books.

A software that could prevent accidents in the Kumbh Mela? Exactly what an IIsc team aims to develop. Read on to find out more about how they plan to do it.

From using mobile apps, to appointing thousands of policemen and volunteers - authorities at the Kumbh Mela in Nashik made sure that no one goes missing from the fair this year.