{"id":55184,"date":"2024-07-10T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=55184"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T10:28:22","slug":"over-4600-pilgrims-depart-jammu-base-camp-for-amarnath-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/over-4600-pilgrims-depart-jammu-base-camp-for-amarnath-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4,600 Pilgrims Depart Jammu Base Camp for Amarnath Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jammu, Jul 10 \u2013<\/strong> Amid heavy rains, over 4,600 pilgrims departed from Jammu city early Wednesday to join the annual Amarnath Yatra at the twin base camps in Kashmir, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This group, the 13th batch of pilgrims, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp for the Baltal and Pahalgam base camps in Kashmir. The 4,627 pilgrims departed in 185 vehicles around 3 am, accompanied by chants of &#8220;Bum Bum Bholey.&#8221; They were escorted by a CRPF contingent with area security provided by the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of these, 2,773 pilgrims traveled in 95 vehicles via the traditional 48-km Pahalgam route, while 1,854 pilgrims took the shorter but steeper 14-km Baltal route in 90 vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since June 28, when Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch, a total of 72,325 pilgrims have departed from the Jammu base camp for the Valley. The 52-day yatra began on June 29 and will conclude on August 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, more than 4.5 lakh pilgrims visited the cave shrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, Jul 10 \u2013 Amid heavy rains, over 4,600 pilgrims departed from Jammu city early Wednesday to join the annual Amarnath Yatra at the twin base&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55184","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55186,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55184\/revisions\/55186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}