Festival navigation and safety app for Durga Puja attendees
Shows nearby Durga Puja pandals on a map, lets you book QR-based VIP passes, and surfaces live crowd levels in Green, Amber, or Red to guide movement. Developed by Startup0km Pvt Ltd for Android, the app targets festival attendees and pandal hoppers. It highlights accessibility filters, multilingual support, and one-tap SOS links to event committees and emergency services, making it suited to families, senior visitors, and anyone checking facilities before travel.
What the app does for on-site coordination
The app maps nearby pandals sorted by distance and provides one-tap directions, and it supports QR-based digital VIP passes you can show at entry for scanning. The mapping and pass features work together to reduce time spent finding venues, and the interactive leaderboards let attendees rate pandals, which encourages local participation and discovery.
How private and emergency flows operate
The app reports crowd levels using active user density across the last 15 minutes, which means location-derived metadata is used to infer Green, Amber, or Red status. The SOS functionality offers one-tap access to specific puja committees, local police, ambulance, and fire services, so emergency contact routing goes beyond a generic help button and connects to local event contacts.
How accessible and localised the experience is
The app offers facility filtering for wheelchair access, parking, and toilet types, which helps users confirm venue suitability before travel. Multi-language support in English, Hindi, and Bengali covers major local audiences. The interface targets on-the-ground decisions rather than social messaging, and the facility filters address mobility and family needs directly.
Platform reach and operational requirements
The app is available on Android via the Play Store and requires a stable internet connection and GPS for live crowd updates and location sorting. Because crowd estimates depend on active users within the last 15 minutes, crowd indicators are more reliable where there is a local user presence; the app does not offer non-location-based alternatives for sparse areas.
UtsavConnect suits festival attendees who need live navigation and localised safety links
The app is a focused tool for people attending Durga Puja who want mapped pandal discovery, verified facility filters, and direct emergency contacts. A limitation is that crowd indicators depend on nearby active users, so data density varies by location. For those attending well-populated events, the app supports on-site coordination and access decisions effectively; for low-density areas, expect less precise crowd signals.
