New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- A day after the massive stampede at New Delhi Railway Station that took lives of at least 18 people, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said that India needs to make crowd control and safety a national mission.

"As the world's most populous nation, with one of the lowest per capita incomes, we need to make crowd control and safety an article of faith and a national mission," Anand Mahindra wrote on X.

Mahindra said that India needs a template of crowd management -- a combination of technology and process analysis.

"We all need to chip in," he said, requesting the Engineering and Management schools at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, to work on the problem jointly and devise a template.

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