AJHLA’s concern over decline of pilgrims during ongoing Shri Amarnath Yatra

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 29: Expressing serious concern over the steep decline of pilgrims in the ongoing Shri Amarnath Yatra, president, All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association (AJHLA), Jammu, Inderjeet Khajuria said that decline of inflow of pilgrims has directly affected the tourism related traders, who are solely dependent on the number of pilgrims.
While addressing a meeting, Khajuria said that after the unfortunate incident of Baltal, which has been engineered by the anti-social and anti national people, the inflow of Yatra has steeply declined as compared with pre-incident influx of the yatra.
“If the Government or Shri Amarnath Shrine Board had extended immediate relief to the victims, whose tents had been gutted, and langer had been damaged for restart, but duo failed to extend the timely help, which has created a sense of insecurity among the pilgrims across the country resulting in decline of pilgrims”, he added.
He also lambasted the State Disaster Management Department, who failed to rehabilitate the langers and tents by providing tents and other necessary items for rehabilitation.
Making a serious suggestion to the Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, khajuria said, “If Mahant of Shri Ram Mandir, Purani Mandi, who is presently managing food and shelter to thousands sadhus every day, been nominated in the Shrine Board should have been proved much better than any other sitting members, who collectively failed in discharging their duties”.
He said that Yatra directly depend on the sustainability of Ice Lingam and security but the Board has failed to manage provide the proper security.
He said that base camp of Yatra at Jammu has not been properly managed as Government failed to utilize the 500 kanal land, which is meant to provide facilities to the pilgrims.
He further said that to maintain the substantiality of Ice Lingam, the services of the DRDO and IIT should be utilized only after consulting the prominent Hindu saints and Shankracharyas.

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