2024-05-17 09:13:14
Mahesh Pandey:
There’s a big inflow of pilgrims within the Chardham Yatra of Uttarakhand which began from Akshaya Tritiya. Because the begin of the Yatra on Might 10, until Might 14, about three lakh pilgrims have visited Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. Final 12 months, 95,000 pilgrims had reached these locations within the first three days. Then within the first three days, 44,892 individuals had come to Kedarnath, so this time the quantity is 75,139. Equally, there was a rise of 61% in Gangotri and 59% in Yamunotri. On the similar time, final 12 months 15,432 individuals had reached Badrinath within the first two days of the yatra, whereas this time 22,690 pilgrims reached on the very first day.
Mana Tak Line
As a consequence of growing crowd, there may be site visitors jam at many locations and lengthy queues in temples. On the very first day of opening of Badrinath temple, about 4 km line for darshan prolonged until Mana village. By 4 pm on Might 14, the variety of individuals registering on-line for Chardham Yatra had reached 26,73,519. On this, there have been greater than 9 lakh individuals going to Kedarnath and greater than 8.25 lakh individuals going to Badrinath. 4.25 lakh individuals wished to go to Yamunotri and 5.5 lakh wished to go to Gangotri. As a consequence of growing on-line registration, the Tourism Division has determined to maintain offline registration closed on Wednesday and Thursday.
insensitivity of the system
It’s being mentioned that the chaos unfold from the beginning cities of the Yatra, Haridwar-Rishikesh to the Char Dhams, exhibits that the system lacks sensitivity in direction of the upper Himalayan areas. State Chief of Opposition Yashpal Arya taunts that there’s a want for clean and protected journey in Char Dham, not occasion administration. The federal government is just not able to inform what number of pilgrims it has made preparations to accommodate on daily basis in every Dham.
site visitors jam drawback
The roads of Char Dham, popularly generally known as ‘All Climate Highway’, have nonetheless not been utterly constructed, therefore there’s a drawback of site visitors jam. The space which often took 2 hours to cowl is now taking 8-8 hours. As a consequence of lack of enough public bathrooms on the Yatra route, filth is being thrown into the holy rivers at many locations.
native individuals upset
The preliminary protests by native residents in Kedarnath and Badrinath have proved that the federal government has failed someplace. In Badrinath, the district administration has eliminated all of the Prasad outlets of native residents. Tons of of native girls who’ve been promoting Tulsi garlands for years have develop into unemployed. In Kedarnath, horse-mule homeowners and native shopkeepers are nonetheless upset resulting from non-resolution of their issues.
the mountain is just not prepared
Greater than 80 lakh pilgrims are anticipated to return right here this 12 months. The mountains will not be ready for such an enormous crowd. Coverage makers ought to be mindful the large improve within the variety of pilgrims whereas making preparations for the Chardham Yatra, in any other case it will be like inviting a catastrophe.
recollections of jam
On the very second day of the graduation of the Yatra, an enormous crowd of devotees was seen on the damaging hilly street resulting in Yamunotri temple. Its video went viral on social media. After this the police needed to attraction to the pilgrims to keep away from visiting the temple for ‘no less than a day’. In such a scenario, pilgrims will go away right here with unhealthy recollections. This can have an effect on the picture of Uttarakhand as a vacationer vacation spot.
immense crowd
Nevertheless, after the protest by many native individuals and pilgrimage monks, the federal government has taken some motion. CM has requested his secretary Meenakshi Sundaram to camp in Uttarkashi. Earlier than this, three officers every on the authorities and district degree have already been deployed to take care of the preparations of Chardham. Nonetheless the query stays that the place is the capability within the Himalayas to accommodate such an immense crowd?
Disclaimer: The views expressed above are these of the writer