Priests of the Char Dham have threatened to go for the protest if the government didn’t lift the mandatory formalities for the pilgrimage of the Char Dham Yatra. As per the officials, everyone willing for the Himalayan Yatra has to do some mandatory online registration first, and there is a limit on daily visitors. Due to this, many visitors cannot go on the spiritual yatra.
Char Dham Priests Threaten Protest
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Suresh Semwal – President of Teerth Purohit Mahapanchayat, said on March 01 that the majority of the people who come to visit the Char Dham are poor, illiterate, and elderly, are they don’t know the online registration process. It is difficult for them to fulfill all the formalities before the yatra. Further, Mr. Sureash also gave the example of last year when many Yatris had to return without completing the Char Dham yatra from Haridwar and Rishikesh as they could not complete the online registration process imposed as compulsory by the officials.
Further, they have reported that keeping the records of the Yatris visiting the Char Dham is necessary, but online registration is not necessarily the same. That can be done by police verification as well. Further, Semwal has raised objections regarding this compulsory online registration and said that it had changed the order of the Char Dham Yatra.
It has been said that Yatris has to visit Yamunotri first and then Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath. But till now, the online registration of only Badrinath and Kedarnath has been started which has to be visited later. But the online registration of Gangotri and Yamunotri has not been started yet. Who has to be visited first, so how does the online registration follow the Indian Rituals?
What do you think, considering the security of the pilgrimage? Online registration should be compulsory, or do the officials have to think about another way to maintain records of the visitors for safety purposes?
