Key Highlights
- It did not go incident-free, however.
- Stampedes occurred both at the Kumbh, and at New Delhi Railway Station where the rush to get a seat on a train to Prayagraj claimed lives: 18 of them at the railway station, and many more at the Kumbh itself.
- Going by ground reports, the trigger in both cases was appallingly sad, and could have been easily averted with better planning and management.
- Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir was chugging along at a steady pace with tourism bringing in value to the local population, but everything changed on a fateful afternoon at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam on April 22.
- Terrorists killed 25 tourists and a pony rider operator.
