Mumbai: A day after drawing criticism over a massive traffic jam on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR), IIT Bombay on Wednesday announced the cancellation of entry for all pre-registered visitors too, to its annual cultural festival, Mood Indigo.In a post on X on Wednesday morning, the institute said, “All pre-registrations for Mood Indigo events at IIT Bombay are cancelled. Entry for any outsider, except competition participants and IIT Bombay residents, is stopped for today and tomorrow.”An unexpectedly large turnout on the first day of the three-day festival, including many visitors who had not registered, led to severe traffic congestion outside the campus on Tuesday. The jam lasted several hours, leaving commuters stranded on the road. Campus residents were also unable to enter or exit the institute during this period.An official spokesperson said the crowd situation became unmanageable for both the institute and the traffic police. “Registered and unregistered visitors queued up outside the gate for hours, and some even became unruly. In view of safety and traffic concerns, we decided to block entry to all visitors for the remaining two days, except the participants,” the spokesperson said.
