Katra (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 30 (ANI): Vaishno Devi Yatra remained suspended on Saturday for the fifth consecutive day following landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in Jammu and Kashmir.
Many devotees from different components of India are nonetheless staying in Katra, hoping that the yatra will resume quickly and they’re going to be capable of get the darshan.
‘I had hoped to do darshan of Mata, however I get disenchanted… I hope she hears my prayers and I can do the darshan… I’ll keep for two to 4 days. I cannot go till I can do the darshan. I’m very hopeful, I got here right here for the primary time,’ a devotee named Saroj Singh informed ANI.
‘I go to right here yearly…I consider in Mata. I cannot go till I’ve executed the darshan…There was slightly anguish this time. I cannot return till I’ve executed the darshan… No matter what number of days I’ve to remain, I’ll. I pray Mata ji can grant those that misplaced their lives an area in her ft and treatment those that have been injured,’ one other devotee named Ramesh Sharma informed ANI.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered the structure of a high-level three-member committee to research the causes of the landslide that occurred on August 26 close to Adhkuwari en path to the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.
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.
The committee has been tasked with conducting an in depth investigation and submitting its report inside two weeks to LG Sinha, who can be the chairman of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB), it stated.
The order has acknowledged that the Committee shall look at intimately the causes and causes behind the incident and level out any lapses, assess responses within the type of rescue and reduction measures undertaken, and recommend acceptable SOPs and measures for stopping recurrence of such incidents sooner or later, the order stated.
On Friday, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) expressed profound grief over the tragic lack of pilgrims’ lives within the pure catastrophe on August 26 and clarified the factual particulars to counter deceptive media stories, stated an official.
In an announcement issued by SMVDSB, ‘A number of media stories have been circulating since yesterday alleging that Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra was allowed to proceed in full disregard to climate advisories and on the expense of pilgrim security. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) expresses deep sorrow and ache on the unlucky lack of lives of pilgrims within the pure catastrophe on twenty sixth August, and locations on file the proper factual place to dispel the impression being created by the insinuating media stories. The Board categorically denies the allegations as false and baseless.’ (ANI)