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| June 17, 2012 | Road construction in full swing ahead of Amarnath Yatra | |
Srinagar: The government in Jammu and Kashmir is currently
engaged in repairing a damaged stretch of road leading to the Amarnath shrine
ahead of the annual pilgrimage. The construction work on the 15.5 kilometre stretch
of road was under progress over the weekend. The painstaking work has been undertaken
to provide a relief to Hindu devotees arriving in the province to be a part of
the annual pilgrimage. Talking to reporters in Srinagar , site engineer Muhammad
Amin Rather said that a major portion of the construction work was completed and
a stretch of about a kilometre would be completed after the pilgrimage ends. "The
total length of the road is 15.5 kilometres. We have magnified 11 kilometres of
the entire stretch since last year. Out of the remaining 4.5 kilometres, three
kilometres of the under constructed stretch would be completed before the commencement
of the Amarnath Yatra. The left one kilometre are few spots like a portion, which
needs to be rectified as the drivers face problem in turning their vehicles. We
cannot begin the construction work now, as the Amarnath Yatra is soon to begin.
We will resume the construction work after the end of the pilgrimage so that the
vehicles can move swiftly on the road," said Rather. Thousands of pilgrims undertake
this journey to the cave shrine of Amarnath, where the Shivlinga is made of ice
and is located at a snow-capped mountainous peak of the Himalayas . Rather said
that the width of the road was increased so that the devotees and vehicles could
move safely and swiftly. "Earlier the width of the road was just 12 feet but now
we are maximising the width by 18 feet. Now, the road would be around 24 feet
in width. So, the devotees and the vehicles can now move safely on the road,"
said Rather. Such is the faith of the devout Hindus that despite hostile and inclement
weather, records are broken year after year as far as the number of pilgrims as
evident from the number of pilgrims increasing with each passing year. This annual
pilgrimage commences on June 25 every year and concludes on Raksha Bandhan in
August.
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