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MIT Kumbh Mela Deploying Innovations for Impact The Kumbh Mela is a colorful beautiful event. Its a massive religious festival a pilgrimage. In August and September 2015 30 million visitors people from all walks of life came to Nashik India in 30 days. Sadhus who have very unusual lifestyles descended on pilgrimage sites. There was a lot of work to do to prepare for millions of people to show up in this relatively small and sleepy city of two million people. The Kumbh Mela was a natural catalyst to bring people together to innovate for impact. It presented a unique opportunity to design build and roll out solutions with the goal of making the Kumbh Mela safer cleaner and more efcient than ever before. The innovation teams worked hard with this goal in sight. By all accounts this Kumbh Mela was a resounding success. There were zero casualties zero missing cases and zero disputes. Now Nashik is increasingly seen as an innovation hub with year-round innovation activities.