Haridwar stampede: Pushkar Singh Dhami directs to type a high-level committee for crowd administration at Uttarakhand shrines

A day after eight pilgrims died and round 30 obtained injured in a stampede at #Haridwar’s Mansa Devi temple, #Uttarakhand Chief Minister #Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday (July 28, 2025) instructed the officers to type a high-level committee to chalk out plan for efficient crowd at spiritual locations throughout the State.

In a gathering held at State Secretariat, Mr Dhami help that crowd administration at essential shrines should embody registration of the devotee. He additionally directed the officers to widen the footpaths and stairs on the temples that are on a top. The CM additionally requested officers to maintain a verify on encroachments round spiritual websites and availability of all different fundamental services for the pilgrims.

Taking instance of giant crowd which is gathering at Mansa Devi – Chandi Devi Temple in #Haridwar, Purnagiri Dham in #Tanakpur, Kainchi Dham in #Nainital, #Jageshwar Temple in #Almora, Neelkanth Mahadev Temple in #Pauri, the CM stated that the high-level committee needs to be constituted underneath the chairmanship of the Commissioners of each the divisions, Garhwal and Kumaon.

“District Magistrates of the respective districts, Senior Superintendents of Police, Vice Presidents of Development Authorities, and representatives of implementing businesses needs to be included as members on this committee which is able to chalk out efficient crowd administration plan in order that incidents like that of July 27 may be prevented in future,” he stated.

The Chief Minister additionally harassed that the committee should work on minute particulars like finding out the carrying capability of the shrines and even close by areas.

“Registration of devotees needs to be made obligatory and a phased association needs to be ensured by controlling the variety of devotees visiting, in order that the group stays underneath management and the devotees don’t face any sort of inconvenience,” the CM stated.