J&K: More Than 15,000 Pilgrims Visit Holy Cave Shrine Of Shri Amarnath Ji

By  News On Air   Jul 01, 2024

In Jammu and Kashmir, more than 15,000 pilgrims visited the holy cave shrine of Shri Amarnath ji yesterday. With this, the total number of devotees having darshan of the holy ice lingam of Lord Shiva has reached to 28,000 on the second day of the annual pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, 4th batch of 6461 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas base camp in Jammu to perform pilgrimage of Barfani Baba. The pilgrims left the base camp in a cavalcade of 265 vehicles early this morning. These included 4831 Men, 1223 Women, 14 Children, 332 Sadhus & 61 Sadhvies (female sadhus). Of these 2321 pilgrims left for Baltal at 4:10 AM and 4,140 for Pahalgam base camp started their journey an hour later.

Meanwhile, the number of people visiting the holy shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi during the first half of this year has crossed 50 lakh mark.