Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 5: All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association (AJHLA) held a meeting under the chairmanship of its president Inderjeet Khajuria and expressed concern over the dilapidated condition of the Yatri Niwas for Shri Amarnath yatries at Bhagwati Nagar.
While speaking, Khajuria pointed out that the Yatri Bhawan is still in shambles with no further development in infrastructure. The land of the base camp under illegal occupation of unauthorized offenders has not been retrieved so far, he added.
“The main object behind the establishing base camp at Bhagwati Nagar was to provide all sort of facilities at one point like registration, medical assistance and provision of medical certificates, comfortable stay for yatries and sadhus separately on large scale, along with stay for security forces, parking for light and heavy vehicles, marking sufficient land and construction of buildings for langer, canteen, sufficient lavatories and bathrooms with 24 hours water and power supply. The main problem faced by the yatries was that they had to wait in open facing scorching heat, sunshine and rains without shelter with no provision of drinking water and sitting arrangements”, he said, adding that it seems that the Government is not serious in the development of base camp.
He stated that the association proposes that instead of scattered registration counters in the city counter should be established at base camp only with all required facilities for the yatries. From security point of view it is proposed that all kind of vehicles carrying yatries should move in convoy from base camp Bhagwati Nagar, Jammu, under strict security cover for their further journey to the holy shrine. This will also felicitate the control of crowding of yatries at Pahalgam and Baltal.
Among others present were Pawan Gupta, Baldev Raj, Harbans Singh, Bikram Singh, Sunil Suri and ML Sharma.
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