Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh’s First Double-Decker Bus Restaurant
- 25 Jan 2025
- 2 min read
Why in News?
Uttar Pradesh’s first double-decker bus restaurant, named Pumpkin, has been inaugurated at the Media Centre in the Maha Kumbh Mela area, Prayagraj.
Key Points
- The restaurant serves exclusively vegetarian and satvic food, catering to the religious atmosphere of the Kumbh Mela.
- Designed to be affordable, it aims to accommodate the budgets of common devotees.
- Founder of the Pumpkin brand announced plans to expand the brand to other religious destinations such as Kashi, Mathura, and Ayodhya.
Maha Kumbh
- Kumbh Mela comes under United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- It is the largest peaceful congregation of pilgrims on earth, during which participants bathe or take a dip in a sacred river.
- It takes place on the banks of the Godavari river in Nashik, the Shipra river in Ujjain, the Ganges in Haridwar, and the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati river in Prayagraj. The confluence is referred to as the ‘Sangam‘.
