{"id":66264,"date":"2026-07-09T06:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/8150-pilgrims-leave-jammu-in-eighth-batch-of-shri-amarnath-ji-yatra\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:13:28","slug":"8150-pilgrims-leave-jammu-in-eighth-batch-of-shri-amarnath-ji-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/8150-pilgrims-leave-jammu-in-eighth-batch-of-shri-amarnath-ji-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"8,150 Pilgrims Leave Jammu in Eighth Batch of Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 8,150 pilgrims departed from Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu early Thursday as part of the eighth batch of the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026, under elaborate security arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, 3,445 pilgrims are travelling via the Baltal route, while 4,705 pilgrims are proceeding through the traditional Pahalgam route.<\/p>\n<p>The Yatra convoy comprised 334 vehicles, including 175 buses, 55 medium motor vehicles (MMVs) and 104 light motor vehicles (LMVs). The Baltal convoy departed at 2:50 a.m., followed by the Pahalgam convoy at 3:38 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the cumulative number of pilgrims who have departed from Jammu for the annual pilgrimage has now reached 52,816.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have put in place comprehensive security, traffic management and logistical arrangements to ensure the safe and smooth movement of pilgrims to the twin base camps at Baltal and Pahalgam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 8,150 pilgrims departed from Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu early Thursday as part of the eighth batch of the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026, under elaborate security arrangements. According to officials, 3,445 pilgrims are travelling via the Baltal route, while 4,705 pilgrims are proceeding through the traditional Pahalgam route. The Yatra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kashmir"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264","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=66264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}