Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha expressed gratitude to all stakeholders involved in the arrangement of the ongoing Holy Shri Amarnath Yatra after it crossed the figure of 4 lakh pilgrims paying obeisance at the mountain cave shrine was reached on Thursday.
The Cheetal helicopters flew 45 sorties, carrying five NDRF and Army personnel and 3.5 tonnes of relief material while evacuating 45 survivors from the holy cave.
A group of sadhus led by Mahant Deependra Giri carried the Holy Mace to the cave shrine from Srinagar.
The reduction in violence and the increase in tourist inflows did not last long due to the failure of the elite ~ both political and administrative ~ to meet the expectations of the people as they were more interested in clinging on to power. Matters were made worse by the skewed development policies pursued by successive governments.
The pilgrimage to the shrine has been cancelled as a precautionary measure due to Covid-19 and only security forces were deployed there on guard duty.
The security forces have busted a number of terror caches along the pilgrimage route and recovered a Pakistan Army landmine and an M-24 American sniper rifle with a telescope from one of them.
Over 1.50 lakh pilgrims have performed the ongoing Amarnath Yatra so far, since the annual pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine started on July 1.
Accompanied by K Vijay Kumar, Advisor to Governor and BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary, Malik conducted an aerial survey of the entire Shri Amarnathji Yatra route along the Baltal-Domel-Sangam-Panjtarni-Sheshnag-Chandanwari-Pahalgam axis to gain a firsthand view of the existing snow accumulation levels.
A fresh batch of 4,195 pilgrims left Jammu for the Amarnath shrine in Kashmir on Monday as officials confirmed that over 1,87,300 pilgrims have so far performed the 2018 Yatra.
The Valley these days is humming with pilgrims heading towards the Amarnath shrine on the Himalayas in South Kashmir. The…
