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| Pilgrimage still running into inclement weather | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 16: Amidst icy and chilly winds even as a first batch of over 7400 pilgrims paid their obeisance at the Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas following pratham puja earlier this morning, the pilgrimage regulator Shrine Board appears in a fix in making a clear advice to the pilgrims as weather conditions continued to assume adverse proportions.
In view of a controversial past of the pilgrimage, the Board has not put a formal halt on the yatra but has asked pilgrims to keep checking with designated counters about weather conditions. For the meantime, yatra has been suspended at Baltal and no fresh group is being allowed tomorrow from Jammu to proceed for Kashmir.
Earlier today, the Additional Chief Executive Officer of the Shrine Board Madan Mantoo performed the pratham puja, a ritual normally performed the Chairman of the Board, who also happens to be the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Official sources said that the Governor could not reach the case shrine as chopper could not fly there due to inclement weather conditions.
The temple board advised the pilgrims not to proceed to the north Kashmir Baltal base camp Wednesday as incessant rains and adverse weather conditions led to slippery conditions on the 14-km long trek to the cave shrine.
“The pilgrims arriving in Jammu have been advised to wait there and join the batch which is scheduled to leave Thursday, subject to an improvement in the weather conditions,” said a spokesperson of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).
As per the reports last received, it was snowing at the cave.
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