The much-awaited Kailash Mansarovar Yatra will commence this summer after a gap of five years. The yatra was stalled after the Chinese government imposed tough conditions for the Indian Pilgrims in 2020 in the wake of tensions between the two countries over border dispute.
Ahead of the assembly elections in Delhi, Congress on Saturday vowed to provide free pilgrimage to Buddhist sites if the party is voted to power in the national capital.
Priests, purohits, panda panchayats, hoteliers, and mule operators in the pilgrimage area raised objections to the government’s plan.
The weeklong shutdown in Katra, the base town of Vaishnodevi pilgrimage, has been suspended after the administration released the detained leaders and assured the protestors that work on the controversial ropeway will not be undertaken until the issue was discussed with the stakeholders.
The government has constituted a special high-level committee (HLC) to suggest the constitution of a 'new authority or institution' to regulate Chardham and other religious pilgrimages to the state.
With the slogan ‘Oh, We! Oh, Love! Oh, Life!‘, the pilgrimage would spread the Buddhist culture of devotional activities through a pilgrimage to India where the life and footsteps of the Buddha are preserved.
Carrying his aged parents on his shoulders with the help of a bamboo stick (popularly known as ‘bahangi’ in the countryside), Chandan Kumar from Jehanabad district has embarked on 105 km-long tour on foot to let his parents visit Baba Baidyanath Dham temple, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district.
We are baffled by the allotment of the government's hajj funds this year. We understand that the government carries the expense of a certain number of hajj pilgrims every year – and the number of pilgrims receiving this advantage is 254 this year
Sinha tweeted; "The 43-day holy pilgrimage will commence on 30th June with all covid protocols in place & culminate, as per the tradition, on the day of Raksha Bandhan. We had in-depth discussion on various issues also on upcoming Yatra".
The Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra scheme will now have a list of 15 routes for free pilgrimage after the two new routes are added.
