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| ‘Pollution-free yatra our top priority’: Kumar | | SASB registers 100 langers, plans to raise massive infrastructure | | JAMMU, APRIL 21
Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board has registered about 100 Langer Organisations from various parts of the country for this year’s Amarnath yatra and requests for establishing more such facilities for providing free catering to pilgrims are continuously pouring in.
Principal Secretary to Governor, Dr Arun Kumar, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Shri Amarnatyhji Shrine Board, has exhorted Langer Organisation to ensure proper sainitation and hygenie around their establishments as the Board is determined to preserve the ecology of the entire track and camps on the Himalayas. In this context, prefab and environmental friendly toilets are being set up and bacteria used to ensure proper sainitation. He hoped that the langer Organisations will extend full support in preserving environment by sticking to the ban of use of polythenes and regular cleaning of the periphery in camping sites.
For providing pure drinking water, he said, the Board is supplementing the effort by providing water filter devises in temporary colonies and around the langers. ‘Every agency has to cooperate in providing pure drinking water’, he said while continuing his interactions with associations and groups associated with the yatra.
Dwelling on the facilities being created in coming months for 2-month long yatra, Dr Kumar said that accommodation is being arranged for 1400 yatris in all camps with toilet, hot water and electricity. For this purpose the Boad is raising 233 prefabricated single and double bed cottages at Baltal and other sites. In addition 45 rest shelters enroute the cave shrine shall be erected. In all 2271 prefabricated and environmental friendly toilets and bathrooms are being raised – 754 in Baltal, 308 at Panjtarni, 344 at Sheshnag, 239 at Nunwan in Pahalgam, 116 in Chandanwari and 233 at the Holy Cave besides other locations. Every halting camp will have toilet and bathing facilities for 18000 pilgrims in all while 74 points with gas geysers and stands are being put in place for provision of hot water.
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