PITHORAGARH: With four batches of Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrims stranded for days due to bad weather, the nodal agency for the Yatra has requested the Centre not to send any fresh batch until the backlog is cleared.
Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN), the nodal agency for the Yatra, wrote a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on July 20 asking it not to send any fresh batch before the stranded ones proceed for their onward journey, KMVN General Manager T S Martolia said.
While the eighth batch of 58 pilgrims could not be airlifted from Pithoragarh’s Naini-Saini airstrip to the Gunji base camp due to bad weather, the pilgrims of ninth, 10th and 11th batches are waiting in KMVN’s Tourist Rest Houses (TRH) at Chaukori, Almora and Bhimtal, Martolia said.
The eighth batch has been waiting for the past nine days in Pithoragarh to be airlifted to the Gunji base camp. (AGENCIES)
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