Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 12: Hotel and Restaurant Association, Katra (HRAK) and Federation of Hotels, Restaurants, Industries and Commerce of Jammu Region (FHRICJR) have stressed that every effort should be made to have a record Amar Nath ji Yatra this year.
While speaking in a meeting with Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Raghav Langar wherein Deputy Commissioner Jammu Anshul Garg, Director Tourism, Jammu Vivekananda Roy were also present, the delegation comprising of President HRAK & FHRICJR Rakesh Wazir and Chairman HRAK Sham Lal Kesar, said that the backlog of worshippers which has accumulated due to non-organising of Amarnath ji Yatra from last two years due to Covid, be cleared and focus should be made to increase the facilities of Amarnath Shrine.
Wazir emphasised that the duration of yatra should also be increased by enhancing the facilities over there so that flow of pilgrimage, which decreases in just after 20 to 25 days of start of Yatra, may increase rather and continue thereupon.
He emphasised for online as well as on spot registration of Yatra at Katra itself because many pilgrims plan Yatra from Katra which is the base camp of 10 million pilgrims visiting every year to Vaishno Devi ji. Besides this, he added, the devotees coming to the Yatra of Shri Amarnath ji should not be treated as prisoners and should not be caged in one place and rather should be facilitated to visit the places of pilgrim and tourist interest in Jammu region including Shiv Khori, Vaishnodevi ji ,Purmandal, Utter Bheni, Suchetgarh Border, Patnitop etc.
Kesar suggested that a sticker should be pasted on Yatra bound vehicles after checking of documents at Lakhanpur and thereafter the vehicle should not be stopped on different locations except for the purpose of security check.
He also raised the issue of alleged harassment of tourists who are not Yatries but stopped at different locations and are not even allowed to proceed to Patnitop, Shiv Khori etc.
Divisional Commissioner listened to the points raised by representatives of HRAK/FHRICJR and assured that sympathetic consideration would be given to each and every point raised in the meeting and efforts will be made to get those implemented on ground for the facilitation of Yatries.
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