Statistics of Kumbh Mela 2013
As per the Financial Times..
To understand the scale of the event, consider this: Kumbh Mela takes place over 55 days on 1,900 hectares of land. The UK’s Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, hosts 177,500 revelers on 350 hectares of land for just five days.
In 2013, the Maha Kumbh Mela is bigger than ever so it presents a special organisational challenge. The area covered by the tent city has risen from 1,500 hectares in 2001, the last time the Maha Kumbh Mela was held, when it lasted 44 days. This year there are 99 parking lots on site, up from 35 in 2001. There are 12,461 state police personnel at the festival, up from 9,965 in 2001. And 85 CCTV cameras have been installed; back in 2001, there were none.
Some 200,000 ration cards have been distributed, while 1.62m kilogrammes of wheat and 400,000 litres of milk have been allotted. There are 43,840 toilets on site, and 14 allopathic, 12 homepathic and 12 ayurvedic hospitals. (The number of allopathic facilities is unchanged from 2001 but more hospitals offering alternative medicine have been added.)