Kailash Mansarowar pilgrims allowed 20 kg weight each
Kailash Mansarowar pilgrims allowed 20 kg weight each
B.D.Kasniyal
Pithoragarh, June 22
‘Kailash Mansarovar’ pilgrims, will be allowed to carry 20 kg of essential goods with them from Indian into Chinese territory of Tibet. “Besides this 20 kg weight, each pilgrims can also carry an additional five kg each as permitted by the ministry, ” said Manish Kumar Singh, General Manager with Kumaon Mandal Vikas Bigam (KMVN), the nodal agency, that looks after the arrangements for Indian pilgrims inside Indian territory of ‘Kailash Mansarowar yatra’. “Each group will be accompanied by 5 person service team including a doctor and 4 cooks,” said the KMVN official.
The official said that if the medical officer included in the team suggest that the team need not proceed further on yatra due to some essential reasons, the team will have to return from that point of yatra. The first batch of ‘Kailash Mansarowar yatra’ this year, beginning from New Delhi on June 30 and will reach Dharchula base camp on June 5, for night stay there.
The pilgrims will also be allowed to take with them essential medicines for 20 different ailments inside Tibet.
According to KMVN sources, a 4 members team of Ministry of external affairs, Government of India, is likely to visit Pithoragarh to take stock of arrangements for the ‘Kailash Mansarowar’ pilgrims inside Indian camps. “The three member team likely to reach Pithoragarh on 25th June, will be led by an under secretary and could visit up to Lipulekh to take stock of arrangements for the pilgrims inside Indian territory,” said Dhan Singh, incharge of KMVN camp at Dharchula.
“The goods, each Kailash pilgrim takes with him, included grocery items like rice, dal and spices, given to each pilgrim by an organisation named, ‘Kailash Mansarowar Vikas Samiti, Gaziabad’ as the Indian pilgrims are not served Indian food items inside Chinese territory,” said Dhan Singh, the KMVN base camp incharge at Dharchula.
