Katra (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 3 (ANI): Due to ongoing poor climate and security issues within the Trikuta Hills within the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra remains to be on maintain for the ninth day in a row on Wednesday.
Heavy rains over the previous week have induced landslides, flash floods, and disruption of important routes resulting in the shrine.
Authorities have maintained that the yatra will solely resume as soon as the climate improves and all routes are declared protected for pilgrims. District administration and Shrine Board officers are carefully monitoring the state of affairs, whereas rescue and restoration groups stay on excessive alert.
Meanwhile, the bottom camp at Katra wears a abandoned look, with a number of devotees nonetheless ready within the hope of resuming their pilgrimage.
On August 27, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi yatra was suspended resulting from a landslide that killed 34 folks and heavy rainfall. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ordered the structure of a high-level three-member committee to research the causes of the landslide.
Shaleen Kabra, Additional Chief Secretary of the Department of Jal Shakti, Jammu and Kashmir, will head the committee, which incorporates the Divisional Commissioner and the Inspector General of Police, Jammu. According to an official order, the committee additionally contains the Divisional Commissioner and the Inspector General of Police, Jammu.
Meanwhile, amid heavy rainfall in a number of Indian states, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued purple alert warnings for a number of districts throughout Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, northern Punjab, northern Haryana, jap Rajasthan, southwest Uttar Pradesh, northwest & jap Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
According to IMD, districts underneath purple alert in Jammu & Kashmir embody Poonch, Mirpur, Rajouri, Reasi, Jammu, Ramban, Udhampur, Samba, Kathua, Doda, and Kishtwar. In Punjab, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Nawashahr, Rupnagar, Moga, Ludhiana, Barnala, and Sangrur are underneath purple alert; whereas in Himachal Pradesh, Mandi, Una, Bilaspur, Sirmaur, and Solan are underneath related warnings. Haryana’s Yamuna Nagar, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula, and SAS Nagar are additionally underneath the identical warning.
Between 8:30 am on Tuesday and 5:30 am on Wednesday, a number of areas in Jammu & Kashmir witnessed vital rainfall. The highest was recorded in Reasi at 203 mm, adopted carefully by Katra at 193 mm, Batote at 157.3 mm, Doda at 114 mm, and Baderwah at 96.2 mm. Jammu metropolis itself acquired 81 mm, whereas different stations akin to Banihal (95 mm), Ramban (82 mm), Kokernag (68.2 mm), and Pahalgam (55 mm) additionally noticed heavy rainfall.
Moreover, rainfall was additionally reported in Srinagar (32 mm), Samba (48 mm), Kishtwar (50 mm), Rajouri (57.4 mm), Srinagar (32 mm) and Qazigund (68 mm) throughout the identical interval. Fresh information as much as 6:45 am on September 3 confirmed extraordinarily heavy rainfall in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi at 230.5 mm.
Apart from Jammu and Kashmir, widespread rainfall was additionally noticed throughout a number of states.
While components of Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, coastal Odisha, coastal Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka, and the Andaman Islands skilled average rainfall, Chhattisgarh skilled heavy rainfall from 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday to five:30 a.m. on Wednesday. (ANI)