00:00Last year, more than 1 crore people visited Ganga Sagar.
00:06Now, there is Kumbh Mela.
00:09But the advantage of that is that the central government
00:13is giving thousands of crores.
00:17And the railways and planes are connected to the roads.
00:23But our Ganga Sagar Mela is connected to water.
00:30It is very difficult for one person to carry water
00:34on a boat, on a vessel, on a boat.
00:39It is very difficult for them to carry water in different ways.
00:44That is why it is said that
00:48our previous historians,
00:55during this Mela,
00:57they used to say,
00:59all the Sagar, Ganga Sagar, once.
01:03When I came here in 2011,
01:08there was no place to stay.
01:12And it was very unhygienic.
01:16People were not respected.
01:20People were not held accountable.
01:22Earlier, there was nothing in Ganga Sagar.
01:28I went and saw in 2011
01:32that there was nothing.
01:36Forget about cleanliness.
01:39At that time, very few people used to come.
01:44After a lot of hard work,
01:48they had to do something on their own.
01:51And they had to pay a lot of fees.
01:56But after our government came,
01:59Ganga Sagar Mela,
02:03all the expenses were taken care of by the state government.
02:08You see,
02:11now there are three helipad stations.
02:15There is a room for many people to stay.
02:19There is a room for people from other castes to stay.
02:24There are so many bio-washrooms,
02:27which we call bio-toilets.
02:30There are so many.
02:32We will have 12 ministers.
02:35Some will be in Mela Prangan.
02:40Some will be in Lot 8.
02:44Some will be in Kochu Beria.
02:47Similarly,
02:50from the West Bengal Police,
02:53from the Calcutta Police,
02:56there will be a higher officer.
03:01There will be an SPDM,
03:05but to support them,
03:08to control the rashes,
03:13we will have to do something.
03:16When someone comes from the water,
03:20they don't know how to hurry.
03:23They don't know how to hurry.
03:26There is no one to help them.
03:29How many vessels are available in the water?
03:33How many boats are there?
03:36How many launches are there?
03:38How many people can be taken away at a time?
03:41When the top police see this,
03:44they release them.
03:46When these people leave,
03:49then a new batch comes.
03:51By doing this,
03:54they bring them to Kakdip,
03:58to Lot 8.
04:00After that, we have a bus.
04:03There is a bus and a train.
04:06They come by that.
04:09This is a huge group of people.
04:14It is not that we have become lazy.
04:19Each person has to go from the inside of the water.
04:24We have been trying for a long time,
04:28for 10 years,
04:30to declare this fair as a national fair.
04:34If you see,
04:36if you look at it from the point of view of difficulties,
04:41the Gangasagar fair is very tough
04:44than the Kumbh Mela.
04:46In the Kumbh Mela, you can go by train,
04:50by car,
04:52by bus.
04:54It is road connected.
04:56The three rivers meet at one place.
05:00But before going to Gangasagar,
05:03you have to go to Kakdip first.
05:06After that,
05:08either you have to go by boat,
05:11or you have to go by boat
05:14to Gangasagar,
05:17to Opar.
05:19After Opar, you have to go by bus
05:22for another 45 minutes.
05:24Then you will get a glimpse of
05:27Kapil Muni's ashram
05:30and the bath.
05:33On the 14th morning,
05:36from the morning,
05:39till the morning of the 15th,
05:42there is a sacred time to take a bath.
05:47But taking a bath in the Ganga
05:50is sacred every day.
05:53Every day, some or the other people go.
05:56Every year,
05:58every year,
06:00three to four pilgrims go.
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