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Registration for Amarnath yatra begins
Srinagar: Registration for the annual pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine of Amarnah is beginning from today. The yatra is scheduled to start from Baltal and Pahalgam routes in Kashmir on June 11. Pilgrims can register in advance through designated branches of Jammu and Kashmir Bank across the country, officials of Amarnath shrine board said. According to Shrine board officials, it was also decided that 1,500 pre-fabricated sanitation units and water heating systems would be erected at different places en route to the cave shrine of Amarnath. Even routes leading to the base camps and the telecommunication system were being improved. Apart from providing better facilities, the security of pilgrims would be high on the agenda during the two-month long Amarnath 'yatra' and the police had been asked to maintain strict vigil in and around Jammu. Even, arrangements were to be made for issuing identity cards, lodging of pilgrims, installation of telephone counters, grant of permission for community kitchens besides regulation of traffic and parking of vehicles.
Officials have been directed to set up co-ordination cells and a core
group in DC's office. The power and public health engineering department
officers had been asked to maintain uninterrupted supply of electricity
and water in the city, especially at the lodging sites. Jammu Municipal
Corporation has been entrusted with upkeep of sanitation and hygiene and
the health department instructed to depute medical teams with the 'yatra'.
According to Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha, who is Chairman of
Amarnathji Shrine Board, Amarnath yatra is a symbol of 'Kashmir's composite
culture' and would be incomplete without the active support of the local
people and both pilgrim and traditional tourism had proved a boon to the
state's economy.
-May 25, 2006
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