Srinagar: Amid heightened safety, one other batch of pilgrims left for the Amarnath Yatra from Pantha Chowk base camp in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Sunday. Vijay Kumar, a pilgrim who got here from Punjab’s Jalandhar to pay obeisance on the Amarnath Shrine positioned in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, spent an evening on the Base camp on Saturday.
“They offered us with good services on the camp. Quickly, a bus (carrying pilgrims) will go away for Baltal. We are going to return after paying our obeisance,” he advised ANI.
“There isn’t a form of fear for the pilgrims right here…,” Kumar added. Vinita Singh, who had come from Haryana stated she was excited to pay obeisance. “All the things together with safety preparations and services, is as much as mark right here. Individuals listed here are superb”.
“We are going to pray for peace for everybody within the nation,” she added. The Yatra, carried out by the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, is split into two routes: one by way of Pahalgam and the opposite by way of Baltal within the Ganderbal district of Kashmir. Baltal serves because the tenting floor for pilgrims.
Prasad, from Bengaluru, on his fifth go to to Kashmir, expressed hope about finishing the Yatra by Sunday night. “I need to go to Kashmir yearly. I enchantment to everybody to come back right here,” stated Prasad whereas appreciating the great thing about the valley.
The Yatra, which formally started on June 29 from the Baltal and Pahalgam base camps, is scheduled to conclude on August 19. This 12 months, the Amarnath Yatra is going down amidst a big enhance in terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir.
