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Jammu, Aug 29
All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association has hailed the decision taken by Sri Amarnath Shrine Board to refrigerate the holy Amarnath Cave, to prevent early melting of self formed ice lingam of Bhagwan Shiva, which is the chief motivating force and primary source of attraction for the devotees to undertake the pilgrimage to the cave shrine.
A meeting of the Jammu hoteliers association held here today, under the Chairmanship of its President Inderjeet Khajuria, has described this move by the shrine board as vindication of the stand taken by the association and many other organisations interested in promoting the Amarnath yatra.
AJHLA has demanded that the work on refrigerating the cave shrine should be taken on war footing and air conditioners should become operational by the time the yatra commences next year. It has also demanded that after the completion of this project the yatra should be extended to four months, starting with the time of opening of Gumari pass on way to Ladakh. The height at Gumari Pass and the cave shrine is the same and hence undertaking of yatra with the opening of Gumari Pass is possible, the association has contended.
Jammu hoteliers association has further demanded that the setting up of permanent base camp at Jammu city, the site for which has been identified at Bhagwati Nagar, near Bapu Asaram Ashram's should be expedited so that the same becomes functional by the time the yatra commences next year in early June. All the necessary arrangements and facilities should be available to the pilgrims at the base camp. The same should be linked with the road along with Tawi bridge, by raising high level bund on the Tawi banks and constructing 30 to 40 feet wide road. Besides providing convenient link to the base camp, it will also ensure protection against the flood water entry into the base camp. It
has further demanded that the proposed base camp should have prefabricated structures for the lodging of the pilgrims, besides provision for the setting up of langars by the voluntary organisations, medicare facilities, like dispensary as well as police post.
Others present in the meeting included Ajay Gupta, Sr. Vice President, H. S. Manhas, Vice President, Ajay Suri, Secretary, Vikram Singh, Publicity Secretary.
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