SABLO holds meet at Chandigarh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 15: Shri Amarnath Barfani Langars Organisation (SABLO) in a meeting of  members  of  SABLO was held  today at Shiv Manas  Mandir, Ram Darbar,  Chandigarh  to complete the application forms for obtaining permission letters for setting up Bhandaras during Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2015 and also  apprise the members about the  achievements  of  SABLO .
The meeting was attended by large number of SABLO members from  Punjab, J&K, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, HP, UP, Rajasthan & Gujarat.
Rajan Gupta, general secretary informed the members  that   a delegation of SABLO  met  Dy Chief Minister of J&K, Dr. Nirmal Singh  on   April 6 at Jammu  and  apprised him about the issues faced  by the Bhandara Organisations during  Shri Amarnathji  Yatra as well  difficulties being faced by the  yatris.
The main issues discussed were issue of  security  of  Bhandaras, particularly in view of  attacks on Langars and  burning of  nine Bhandaras  at Baltal  during  2014 Yatra, relief/financial assistance to these nine Bhandaras, decrease in  number of Bhandaras by  Shrine Board,   providing free  accommodation to yatris etc.
After the meeting with  the Deputy Chief Minister, the  delegation of SABLO met Pardip Kumar Tripathi, the new  CEO and  Jitendra Kumar Singh, Addl CEO and discussed these  issues with them also.
A delegation of  SABLO  later   met   CEO   and  Addl. CEO   on  April 11  at  Jammu   in which following issues were sorted out  various issues were again raised.
Members  were also  informed that apart from this,  many other issues related to Shri Amarnathji Yatra with Central Government, respective   Departments of  J&K Government,  and Shrine Board still remain pending, which could not be discussed due to time constraints. These issues will be discussed and sorted out during  future meetings with officials of  SASB.
In all a total of 85 applications for grant of permission for setting up Bhandaras were filled and completed during the meeting.
The   meeting was attended by   Vijay Thakur-President, Rajan Gupta-General secretary, Amar Goyal – Finance Secretary, Vijay Mehra, Harsh Rishi, Tirlok Oberoi, Ajay Kumar Tony, Pankaj Soni among many others.