Title - Central Railway mulls colour coding

NASHIK: The railway administration is planning to use a colour coding system for crowd management during the Kumbh meal scheduled in 2015-2016."Our officials had visited Allahabad during the last kumbh mela there to study what methods the railway authorities adopted for crowd control. Colour codes were assigned to passengers coming to the city from each region. The same method is going to be implemented in Nashik," a senior central railway official from Bhusawal said.The officials in Allahabad had colour coded major railway stations in the country and erected makeshift camps around the station building.Passengers moving out of the city were told to report at the respective camps identified by the colours. Whenever the trains for the particular destinations were scheduled for departure, announcements would be made for the passengers for those regions who were divided based on colour.

"For instance, the people travelling towards Aurangabad and beyond from Nashik will be grouped together, and arrangements will be made for them in a particular colour coded camp. Another colour code will be assigned to passengers towards Kolkata. Since the heaviest traffic is likely from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two different camps will be set up for these regions," the official said.

The colour code was being thought over because of the ease with which people coming from a region could be identified.

This would help in the movement of the passengers of a particular region only instead of all the people waiting together in different camps causing chaos.

The railway official said, however, that though the method was successfully implemented in Allahabad, the authorities in Nashik were still thinking about various other methods of crowd management.