IIITA Support to Prayagraj MahaKumbh 2025
- Nodal Officer(Principal Coordinator): Prof. Neetesh Purohit
- Supervision for Website & Mobile App
Technical Designs, Adding new Functionalities, verification and checking: Dr. Manish Kumar (Coordinator), Prof. Pritish Varadwaj (Coordinator); Content Review: Dr. Vineet Tiwari (Coordinator), Dr. Shashikant Rai (Coordinator) - Supervision for Telecom Infra, relevance, and Scalability
Dr. Suneel Yadav (Coordinator), Dr. Radhika Gour, Dr. Mahendra Kumar Shukla (IIITM Gwalior), Dr. Devendra Singh Gurjar (NIT Silchar), Dr. M D Bansal (IIITDM Jabalpur), Dr. Arun Prakash (MNNIT Prayagraj) - Supervision for Emergency Response System
Dr. Vineet Tiwari (Coordinator), Dr Shanti Chandra, Dr. Ramesh Bhukya, Prof Ajay Prakash Khare, Dr Himani Chaurasiya - Satellite Image based Mela Planning: Dr. Himanshu Maurya (Coordinator), Dr. Pooja Mishra,
- Student's Community Engagements
Dr. Vijay Chaurasiya (Coordinator), Dr. Purnendu Mishra (Coordinator). Dr Archna Pandey - Hackathon (Concluded): Dr. S Venkatesan (Coordinator), Dr. Muneendra Ojha (Coordinator), Dr. Manish Kumar (Advisor), Dr. Sonali Agrawal, Dr Anshu Anand, Dr. Navjot Singh, Dr. Purnendu Mishra
Prayagraj Mahakumbh 2025 HACKATHON (January - March, 2024)
The IIITA, in collaboration with Mela Pradhikaran Prayagraj and the UP government, organized a hackathon aimed at providing a platform for developing effective solutions for various issues associated with the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj.
The event garnered participation from 170 teams across the country. Theme 1 focused on Security, Surveillance, Mobility, and Crowd Management, encouraging the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and Machine Learning. A total of 107 teams participated in this theme, showcasing their solutions tailored to address the complex challenges of managing large crowds effectively.
Theme 2 centered on Extended Reality Solutions for enhancing pilgrim governance, exploring applications such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and the Metaverse. Nineteen teams participated in this theme, presenting immersive and innovative solutions to enhance the pilgrim experience and governance.
Theme 3 emphasized Service Level Benchmarking for assets, inventory, facilities, and utilities monitoring and management, encouraging the utilization of drones, QR codes, and facial recognition technologies. Forty-four teams participated in this theme, offering solutions aimed at optimizing resource management and enhancing operational efficiency.
The evaluation process comprised two rounds, culminating in the declaration of final results on March 21, 2024, recognizing the most promising and impactful solutions across all themes. Winner teams were awarded Rs. 1 Lakh in each theme.
Team
Prof. Mukul Sharad Sutaone Director IIITA
PATRON
Prof. Neetesh Purohit Professor IIITA
NODAL OFFICER
Dr. Manish Kumar
Associate Professor IIITA
Coordinator
Prof. Pritish Varadwaj Professor IIITA
Coordinator
Dr. Vijay Chaurasiya
Associate Professor
Coordinator
Dr. Suneel Yadav
Assistant Professor
Coordinator
Dr. Vineet Tiwari
Assistant Professor
Coordinator
Dr. S. Venkatesan
Associate Professor
Coordinator
Dr. Muneendra Ojha
Assistant Professor
Coordinator
Dr. Sonali Agrawal
Associate Professor
IIITA
Dr. Navjot Singh
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Anshu Anand
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Radhika Gaur
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Mahendra Kumar Shukla
Assistant Professor
IIITM Gwalior
Dr. Devendra Singh Gurjar
Assistant Professor
NIT Silchar
Dr. Matadeen Bansal
Assistant Professor
IIITDM Jabalpur
Dr. Himanshu Maurya
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Pooja Mishra
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Shanti Chandra
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Dr. Ramesh Bhukya
Assistant Professor
IIITA
Prof. Ajay Prakash Khare
Principal, CMP Degree College
Dr. Purnendu Mishra
CMP Degree College
Coordinator
Dr. Archana Pandey
CMP Degree College
Dr. Himani Chaurasiya
CMP Degree College
"TEERTHRAJ" PRAYAGRAJ
Prayagraj is one of the oldest cities in India. It is crowned in ancient scriptures as ‘Prayag’ or ‘Teertharaj’ and is considered the holiest of pilgrimage centres of India. It is situated at the confluence of three rivers- Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati. The meeting point is known as Triveni and is very sacred to Hindus. The Kumbh held in every six years and Mahakumbh in every 12 years at Prayagraj (Sangam) are the largest gatherings of pilgrims on this earth.
Geographically, Prayagraj is located in the southern part of the Uttar Pradesh. To its south and southeast is the Bagelkhand region, to its east is middle Ganges valley of North India, or Purvanchal, to its southwest is the Bundelkhand region, to its north and northeast is the Awadh region and to its west along with Kaushambi it forms the part of Doab i.e the Lower Doab region. In the north Pratapgarh, in the south Rewa (M.P.), in the east Sant Ravi Das Nagar and in the west Kaushambhi districts are located.
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