Good news for Chardham pilgrims: Uttarakhand government has increased the number, now 13 thousand devotees will be able to visit Kedarnath in a day

Uttarakhand government has announced to increase the number of pilgrims in Chardham (Uttarakhand Char Dham Yatra 2022). The Dhami government announced an increase in the number of pilgrims to Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath by 1,000 each (Pilgrims limit at Char Dham, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami (CM Pushkar Dhami on Char Dham Yatra) told ANI that “the government has decided to increase the number of pilgrims in Chardham by one thousand.” With this, now 16,000 devotees can visit Badrinath in a day and 13,000 devotees can visit Kedarnath Dham.

Now, 8,000 and 5,000 pilgrims can visit Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham respectively in a day. Earlier, when the pilgrimage began on May 3, only 15,000 pilgrims were allowed daily in Badrinath, 16,000 in Kedarnath, 7,000 in Gangotri Dham and 5,000 in Yamunotri Dham. The doors of Gangotri-Yamunotri Dham were opened on May 3, while those of Kedarnath and Badrinath were opened on May 6 and May 8 respectively. Chief Minister Dhami said, “There is always a huge crowd of devotees on the first day of the yatra, for which long queues are seen at Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri for ‘darshan’.”

Yatra is being run well: CM Dhami

The CM said, “After the opening of the portal, the crowd has now been controlled to some extent and the yatra is being run in a better way. Pre-registration is being made mandatory for pilgrimage.” With this, the Uttarakhand government on Tuesday issued an advisory for Char Dham pilgrims asking them to get themselves medically examined before embarking on the arduous journey to the temples of the Himalayas. The advisory was issued by Health Secretary Radhika Jha in a review meeting on Tuesday.

The advisory has been issued in the wake of 18 pilgrims who died of heart attack on their way to the temples within a week of the commencement of the yatra on May 3. Jha said in the meeting, the pilgrims, especially the elderly who have been previously hit by COVID-19 or those suffering from high blood pressure and high diabetes, should get themselves self-examined especially before going on the pilgrimage to the Himalayan temples. .