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The 38-day annual Amarnath pilgrimage will commence on 3 July and culminate on 9 August on Raksha Bandhan. The pilgrimage will set off from two routes – the Pahalgam track in the Anantnag district and Baltal in the Ganderbal district – simultaneously.
The holy silver mace of Swami Amarnath Ji will be led by its custodian Mahant Deependra Giri, who is the Mahant of the Chhari-Mubarak Swami Amarnath.
The Lt Governor interacted with the pilgrims, and enquired about their pilgrimage experience.
Over 1.82 lakh pilgrims had ‘darshan’ inside the holy cave shrine of Amarnath during the last nine days as another batch of 5,803 yatris left for Kashmir on Monday.
In a free-wheeling conversation with Anjali Bhatia he spoke about India's tourism potential and the much-debated Agnipath scheme.
Keeping in view the improvement in facilities since then, the Supreme Court in 2012 had set a limit of 7,500 per day from each of the two routes.
Officials said Yatra was resumed on Monday from Pahalgam base camp while it was not resumed from Baltal base camp because the 14 km long north Kashmir trek is damaged at three places.
Our priority is to save the lives of people. Instructions have been issued to provide all necessary assistance to pilgrims. I am closely monitoring the situation.
The Ministry has deployed medical professionals from Central government and state government-run hospitals to assist devotees while on the way to Amarnath.
