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Kheer Bhawani pilgrims aghast over lack of facilities 6/9/2019 11:19:09 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 9: The pilgrims reaching holy shrine of Kheer Bhawani Tulmulla from different parts of the country have expressed grave concern over lack of arrangements there. According to reports devotees are facing accommodation problems inside the shrine for night stay as Government has failed to make adequate arrangements for them. Some yatris who reached Mata Kheer Bhawani shrine in Tulmulla from different parts of the country including Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Bhopal, New Delhi and Chandigarh are approaching local people for accommodation in their houses as all rooms have been already booked inside the shrine. The accomodation available inside the shrine has been already allotted to PM package employees with the result pilgrims coming to pay obesience at the holy shrine for Zeshtha Ashtami also called Kheer Bhawani Mela have to make arrangements for night by booking private rooms outside. Reports said that the shops opened by Government for supply of rice, flour and sugar are selling these commodities at much higher rates. The sugar at the Government shops in the shrine is sold at Rs. 45/kg when the same is available at Rs. 39 or Rs. 40 in the market outside. Likewise the rates of rice and flour are much higher than what is available in the market. The authorities are tight lipped about the rate list of sugar, rice, flour and other items available in Government shops which is sold at exorbitant rates. When some pilgrims and local people who had established their shops inside the shrine tried to contact District authorities to find out the reason for the same they could not get the satisfactory reply. The authorities informed them that the rate has been fixed by the government at higher level and they can not do anything in this regard. However the people while showing their grave concern over the exorbitant rates at Government shops said that they will make purchasings from the market outside and criticized the Government for making hollow claims about the arrangements for the pilgrimmage.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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