Jammu:
The offline registration for the upcoming annual Amarnath Yatra started with enthusiastic pilgrims making a beeline outdoors the designated financial institution branches right here on Tuesday, hoping to get a possibility to be a part of the primary batch to go to the revered shrine.
The 38-day pilgrimage is scheduled to start on July 3 from the dual routes — the normal 48-km Pahalgam route in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and 14-km shorter however steep Baltal route in Ganderbal district.
The yatra will culminate on August 9, coinciding with the Raksha Bandhan pageant.
Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), which manages the annual pilgrimage, has designated a complete of 540 financial institution branches throughout the nation for advance registration of the pilgrims, along with the net facility for registration on its web site which began on Monday.
In keeping with the board, nobody beneath the age of 13 or above 75 and ladies with greater than six weeks’ being pregnant shall be registered for the pilgrimage.
“The advance yatra registration commenced this morning with intending devotees, each women and men, turning up early to safe their slot for the annual pilgrimage,” an official of the Punjab Nationwide Financial institution, Rehari department, stated.
He stated the registration is a should for all of the pilgrims desiring to undertake the yatra.
Expressing happiness over the beginning of the advance registration, Ajay Mehra, an area resident, stated they’ve been ready for today to be among the many first to go to the shrine, housing the naturally shaped ice-shivling.
“That is my seventh yatra this yr and I’m completely satisfied to be right here to get registered,” he stated, asking devotees to come back for ‘darshan of the Baba Barfani’ as “the happiness you’ll get there can’t be discovered wherever else”.
Amid chants of ‘Bham Bham Bole’ by the devotees, he stated that the expertise of visiting the shrine can’t be described in phrases.
Sham Lal Dogra, one other pilgrim ready within the queue, stated this can be his forty fifth go to to the shrine this yr, whereas a number of girls stated they’re visiting the shrine for the primary time and are excited for getting their prayers fulfilled.
“I waited for a few years and this time my dream to go to the shrine will get fulfilled,” Asha Devi stated.
Atika, a university scholar, stated nearly all her relations together with mother and father had visited the Amarnath shrine and “this time it’s my flip to pay obeisance there”.
Kusum Gupta (50) stated she simply wished to go there and supply her prayers. She is a part of a six-member household group they usually have chosen the Baltal route to finish their first yatra.
Final yr, over 5.12 lakh pilgrims visited the shrine which was the very best prior to now 12 years
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