Uttarakhand govt cancels Kanwar Yatra this year in view of Covid pandemic

Preserving in perspective the COVID0-19 pandemic, the Uttarakhand Federal government on Tuesday has decided to cancel Kanwar Yatra this 12 months.

Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage of devotees of Lord Shiva to Hindu pilgrimage websites of Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Sultanganj in Bihar to fetch holy waters of River Ganga. Afterwards, the holy water is dispensed as choices to Lord Shiva in temples.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, at a higher-level assembly, decided that like very last 12 months, this 12 months way too, there will be no Kanwar Yatra to fight coronavirus, officers explained.

Soon after thinking about specialist viewpoints and an in-depth dialogue on the discovering of the Delta Plus variant of COVID and its effects in the nation and overseas, the point out governing administration, providing prime priority to the protection of human life, decided to postpone the forthcoming Kanwar Yatra, they added.

Dhami has directed the Secretary of Property and Director Standard of Police (DGP) to acquire appropriate motion. He also instructed them to coordinate with the officers of the neighbouring states and to ask for them for efficient motion to tackle the pandemic.

“We discussed with better officers and with officers from neighbouring states and decided that we will not keep Kanwar Yatra at this time. A variant has been identified in Gadarpur so we will not want to make Haridwar the heart of Covid,” explained Dhami

Previously, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) experienced created to Uttarakhand Chief Minister to disallow the Kanwar Yatra this 12 months in gentle of the probable third COVID-19 wave.

In the letter, IMA Uttarakhand State Secretary Dr Ajay Khanna expressed issues about the crowds that may acquire for the annual pilgrimage and urged Dhami not to enable devotees from exterior to enter the point out for the Yatra.

Khanna more explained that the yatra is a make a difference of Shraddha (reverence) and Aastha (faith), and God would not like any one to die.

(Only the headline and photo of this report may have been reworked by the Company Regular staff the relaxation of the information is car-produced from a syndicated feed.)

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