In Jharkhand, lakhs of devotees from across the country visit Deoghar to offer prayers at Baba Baidyanath temple during the month of Sawan. This is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas. Akashvani’s correspondent reports that the whole atmosphere is reverberating with Har Har Mahadev. Devotees have been offering gangajal to Shivling since the wee hours.

Kanwariyas fetch water from the river Ganga at Sultanganj in Bihar and walk around 105 km to reach Babadham to offer it to Lord Shiva. Tight security arrangements have been made to ensure the safety of devotees. For the first time, the Jharkhand government is using artificial intelligence, AI-based technologies and tools for crowd management at the Shravan Mela. The real-time information about devotees will be known using this technology. The machinery will also know the number of devotees and the line of devotees waiting for puja.