{"id":29362,"date":"2020-07-05T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29362"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:41:26","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-lt-governor-performs-pratham-aarti-amarnath-yatra-to-begin-on-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29362","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor performs Pratham Aarti, Amarnath Yatra to begin on July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year\u2019s Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir Himalayas would have to be undertaken in a restricted manner due to Covid-19 pandemic.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, GC Murmu, peformed \u201cPratham Aarti\u201d of the ice stalagmite at the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He was accompanied by his principal secretary and chief executive officer of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) Bipul Pathak, additional CEO AK Soni, Division Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang K Pole and other senior officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe LG along with senior officials reached the cave shrine early Sunday morning and performed Pratham Aarti,\u201d said an official of the SASB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prasar Bharati, India\u2019s official broadcaster, showed the aarti live. It will do so till August 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cHappy to share that the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board in association with Prasar Bharati will bring the live telecast of Aarti from the Holy Cave of Shri Amarnathji on various Doordarshan channels,\u201d Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar had tweeted on Saturday. The aarti will be shown live at 3 am and 7 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir BVR Subrahmanyam on Saturday had said that this year\u2019s Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir Himalayas would have to be undertaken in a restricted manner, so that the SOPs for Covid-19 are strictly adhered to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven the constraints, a maximum of 500 yatris will be allowed per day by road from Jammu. Therefore, arrangements will have to be limited to this number,\u201d he had said while chairing a meeting of the sub-committee constituted by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curtailed yatra (pilgrimage) is likely to be held from July 23 to August 3 this year from the shorter Baltal route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

On June 5, the top officials of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) performed \u201cPratham Pooja\u201d in the state\u2019s winter capital Jammu on the occasion of Jayestha Purnima signifying commencement of the annual pilgrimage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cPratham Pooja\u201d at SASB\u2019s Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Ashram was conducted by Principal secretary to J&K Lieutenant Governor and CEO of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, Bipul Pathak, ACEO AK Soni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Last year, the yatra was cut short following intelligence inputs of terror threats ahead of the Centre scrapping Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2018, the pilgrimage was held for 60 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of pilgrims either trek the traditional and longer 45-km-long Pahalgam route or the shorter 16-km Baltal route to the holy shrine every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

One of the holiest pilgrimages in Hinduism, the Amarnath Yatra attracts pilgrims from India as well as across the world. There have been terror attacks on the route of the yatra in the past. The last attack took place in 2017 on a bus from Gujarat in Anantnag district that left seven pilgrims dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir high court has sought to know from the government about arrangements and various safety precautions on Amarnath Yatra in view of Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

On Friday, advocate Sachin Sharma had moved an application before the high court that was heard by Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The division bench issued notice to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Additional Advocate General (AAG) Aseem Sawhney accepted notice on behalf of the government. Monika Kohli who is assisting the court as Amicus Curiae also accepted the notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court asked the AAG to place before it the proposal and decision of the government with regard to the yatra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With inputs from HT<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir Himalayas would have to be undertaken in a restricted manner due to Covid-19 pandemic. Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, GC Murmu, peformed \u201cPratham Aarti\u201d of the ice stalagmite at the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir on Sunday morning. He was accompanied by his principal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}