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| Yatri death evokes response from HM | | `Provide better medicare' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 28: The Home Ministry has asked Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board to provide better medicare and ensure strict adherence to the rules in the just started Amarnath yatra. The directions have been issued after the death of a pilgrim along the Baltal route.
Source said the Home Ministry has taken a serious note of the death. It had communicated to the Board that all measures should be taken and every facility should be in place to avoid occurrence of any such incident in the future.
It is more concerned because the Prime Minister is scheduled to visit the State next month and reports of any more death along the yatra would not get a positive response.
"We can't afford to have any bad news coming out from the state, when the PM is coming. The visit is planned to bring in more peace and this is the message that Prime Minister may give. But if the deaths do continue to take place then it would leave the visit in the bad taste," said a senior Home Ministry official, wishing not to be named.
The Board has been communicated so early because the Prime Minister is deeply religious and holds both the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi and Shri Amarnathji in high esteem. It is also more so because the BJP, with the absolute majority, is heading the Government.
The other reason the Ministry is concerned about is the early resumption of the yatra from the Pahalgam route. The Ministry wants it to be cleared at the earliest so that yatra can move along this track which is more safer. It has also sought details from the Board about the delay in clearing snow.
"The entire administration is at the disposal of the Board and it should have cleared the track. The delay even if there were natural reasons should have been avoided. It also gives room for floating conspiracy theories as a section in Kashmir is opposed to the yatra . And it's bound to get reaction from right wing Hindu . The Board should have taken into account and shed the past practice," said a senior Home Ministry official. |
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