A handful of the pilgrims managed to get to Kedarnath, which has actually been experiencing rainfall given that Sunday night
MUSSOORIE/ DEHRADUN: The Char Dham Yatra to Kedarnath was halted on Monday amidst gusty winds, heavy rainfall and snowfall in Uttarakhand even as the expedition to Gangotri, Yamunotri, Hemkund Sahib, and Badrinath proceeded customarily.
The Hemkund Sahib Yatra began on Sunday with 5,000 pilgrims permitted to visit the shrine daily. “Hemkund Sahib experienced light snow on the day the portals of the shrine were opened however it has actually not influenced the yatra,” said Hemkund Sahib Administration Trust vice head of state NS Bindra.
The area administration mentioned the explorers’ security as well as stopped the yatra for the Kedarnath shrine at Rudraprayag.
District catastrophe administration policeman NK Rajwar claimed due to the heavy rain, the explorers, who have actually arrived in Ukhimath, Sonprayag as well as Gaurikund, were asked to stay there until more announcement as winds, thunderstorms as well as lightning pose a threat to them on their method to Kedarnath.
Over 10,000 pilgrims were waiting on the yatra to return to. “We were going to Kedarnath however the management did not enable us to go ahead mentioning hefty rainfalls … we remained at a hotel in Rudraprayag,” stated Vimla Shekhawat, a pilgrim from Rajasthan.
Another explorer Man Bhadur Thapa from Nepal stated the gusty winds made travelling tough. “So, we chose to remain at Agastyamuni and wait for the rainfall to go away prior to going to Kedarnath.”
A handful of the pilgrims handled to get to Kedarnath. “Kedarnath has been experiencing rains given that last [Sunday] evening and also as the yatra has actually been stopped, only those explorers who were staying overnight are being escorted to the temple and also being sent back …,” claimed KN Goswami, a nodal police officer at Kedarnath.
Ram Prakash Singh, an explorer from Madhya Pradesh who got here in Kedarnath on Sunday, said with a smaller sized number of explorers, he was able to carry out complete petitions and also hang around meditating near the temple facilities in Kedarnath on Monday.
The India Meteorological Division, in its special projection for the Char Dham area, has actually provided an alert for electrical storms with hail and also lightning till 8.30 am on Tuesday. It additionally provided an alert of high-velocity winds in the range of 70-80 km per hr. Uttarakhand separately reported 10.7 mm of rainfall in between 8.30 am Sunday to 8.30 am Monday.
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Last Updated: 23 May 2022
