Registration for Amarnath yatra on

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*The step-by-step procedure which the pilgrims must follow to register for the Amarnath yatra has been put on website www.shriamarnathjishrine.com

*The registration commenced on March 2 for both the Baltal and Chandanwari routes through 430 designated branches of Punjab National Bank, Jammu and Kashmir Bank and Yes Bank

*This year’s 59-day yatra will commence simultaneously on both routes from July 2

*Persons under the age of 13 years or above the age of 75 years and women who are more than six weeks pregnant will not be registered

*The intending yatris will have to furnish a health certificate, the format for which has been put on the website.

Tribune News Service

Jammu, March 3

The registration of pilgrims for the Amarnath yatra commenced on March 2 for both the Baltal and Chandanwari routes through 430 designated bank branches of Punjab National Bank, Jammu and Kashmir Bank and Yes Bank all over the country.

This year’s 59-day yatra will commence simultaneously on both routes from July 2 and culminate on Raksha Bandhan (August 29).

Chief Executive Officer, Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, Rakesh Kumar Gupta said the step-by-step procedure which the pilgrims needed to follow to register for the yatra had been put on the board’s website www.shriamarnathjishrine.com.

The website also contains the application form and state-wise list of bank branches with complete addresses which the yatris can approach for registering themselves for this year’s pilgrimage.

The CEO said the yatris would have to furnish a compulsory health certificate while seeking registration for the yatra and the format of the certificate and a state-wise list of doctors/institutes authorised to issue such certificates had been put on the website.

Gupta said to ensure against fraudulent health certificates, only the certificates which were issued by doctors or medical institutes authorised by the state government/UT administrations concerned would be accepted at the registering bank branches.

“For this year’s pilgrimage, only those health certificates which have been issued after February 10 shall be valid,” he added.

Persons under the age of 13 years or above the age of 75 years and women who are more than six weeks pregnant will not be registered for this year’s yatra, the CEO said.

The permits for this year’s yatra will be different for each day of the week and route, with a different colour coding for each day, to facilitate the police personnel deployed at the access control gates at Baltal and Chandanwari to regulate the yatra.

In this context, the CEO cautioned the intending yatris against undertaking the yatra without securing a yatra permit and the compulsory health certificate.

Gupta said for ensuring effective security arrangements along the difficult tracks, only those yatris who were in possession of a yatra permit which would be valid for a specified date and route would be allowed to proceed beyond the base camps, and cross the entry gates at Domel and Chandanwari.

He appealed to all intending yatris to complete the necessary formalities for registration in advance and obtain a yatra permit in their own interest so that they do not face any inconvenience when they embark on the pilgrimage.

Yatris who propose to travel by helicopter do not require advance registration as their helicopter tickets would suffice.

However, they shall be required to produce the compulsory health certificate, in the prescribed format and issued by an authorized doctor, before they are allowed to travel by helicopter.