In an revolutionary initiative, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) has resolved to distribute plant saplings as ‘Prasad’ to the pilgrims visiting the Shri Vaishno Devi temple. To facilitate this, a state-of-the-art facility has been established at Katra, the place to begin of the sacred journey.
The Vaishno Devi Shrine is considered one of the crucial sacred shrines in India. They’ve attracted roughly 10 million devotees yearly. Situated on the Trikuta Hills, the Shrine Board officers defined that the motive behind this initiative is to encourage people to plant an growing variety of bushes, thereby contributing to the battle in opposition to local weather change and world warming.
These saplings, given as Prasad, can even function a divine blessing and a memento of the sacred pilgrimage. Viney Khajuria, the Assistant Conservator of Forest at SMVDSB, said that the Board is quickly going to formally start the distribution of vegetation as ‘Parshad’ to the pilgrims of Vaishno Devi. A high-tech outlet is being deliberate on the Nahirika advanced in Katra for this function, the place devotees can obtain the saplings as a blessing from Maa Vaishno Devi.
Khajuria additionally revealed {that a} subtle nursery has been established by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board on the village of Kunia within the Panthal space close to Katra in Reasi. The indigenous plant species are appropriate to the native local weather and are straightforward to move and transplant.
The devotees have expressed their delight and enthusiasm about this novel idea. Devotees have known as it a ‘distinctive concept’, and are ‘thrilled’ to convey house the blessing of Mata Rani within the type of a plant.