Varanasi: To decongest Kashi, the Kashi Vishwanath temple administration has banned the sale of tickets for Sugam-darshan, rituals and aarti. Vishwanath Dham Also ticket sales counter in view of Kovid-19 third wave.
After the inauguration of KV Dham by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a huge increase in the crowd of pilgrims from across the country on 13th December.
As a result, ticket sales have picked up, especially due to the high demand for Sugam Darshan by pilgrims who did not want to stand in the queue for long.
Chief Executive Officer of KVT Sunil Verma said that the increase in the crowd KVT There was an increase in ticket seekers at a time when the third wave of covid started, so it was decided to stop the sale of tickets to avoid gathering at the ticket centre, although online booking has not been stopped. the crowd inside KVD has also reduced, he said.
Before stopping the offline sale of tickets for Sugam Darshan, Anusthan and Aarti at the KVT, he said, the entry inside the sanctum sanctorum of the KVT was stopped only a week ago in view of the COVID pandemic.
The temple has been witnessing huge crowd ever since the inauguration of KVD by the PM and a new record was set for the arrival of devotees on January 1. As per police records, 3.35 lakh pilgrims entered the KVT premises, while the district authorities estimated the presence of over five lakh people in and around the KVD in a single day.
Compared to all previous records of crowds in a day, which ranged between 2-2.50 lakhs on special occasions like Mahashivratri or Mondays of the month of Shravan, the KVT had the highest number of devotees on January 1. As per the records, on average normal days the crowd of devotees at the KVT is around 10,000, while on special occasions it has gone up from 1.50 lakh to over two lakh in the past years except in the two previous waves of COVID-19.
But, after the opening of the KVD, there was a huge increase in the number of devotees every day, following which the police introduced new traffic regulation and crowd management between Maidagin and Godoliya crossing by restricting vehicles including district administration officials, police and VIPs. .
Provision for barricading was also made at Mandir Chowk inside the KVD to make the pilgrims queue up to decongest the roads.
After the inauguration of KV Dham by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a huge increase in the crowd of pilgrims from across the country on 13th December.
As a result, ticket sales have picked up, especially due to the high demand for Sugam Darshan by pilgrims who did not want to stand in the queue for long.
Chief Executive Officer of KVT Sunil Verma said that the increase in the crowd KVT There was an increase in ticket seekers at a time when the third wave of covid started, so it was decided to stop the sale of tickets to avoid gathering at the ticket centre, although online booking has not been stopped. the crowd inside KVD has also reduced, he said.
Before stopping the offline sale of tickets for Sugam Darshan, Anusthan and Aarti at the KVT, he said, the entry inside the sanctum sanctorum of the KVT was stopped only a week ago in view of the COVID pandemic.
The temple has been witnessing huge crowd ever since the inauguration of KVD by the PM and a new record was set for the arrival of devotees on January 1. As per police records, 3.35 lakh pilgrims entered the KVT premises, while the district authorities estimated the presence of over five lakh people in and around the KVD in a single day.
Compared to all previous records of crowds in a day, which ranged between 2-2.50 lakhs on special occasions like Mahashivratri or Mondays of the month of Shravan, the KVT had the highest number of devotees on January 1. As per the records, on average normal days the crowd of devotees at the KVT is around 10,000, while on special occasions it has gone up from 1.50 lakh to over two lakh in the past years except in the two previous waves of COVID-19.
But, after the opening of the KVD, there was a huge increase in the number of devotees every day, following which the police introduced new traffic regulation and crowd management between Maidagin and Godoliya crossing by restricting vehicles including district administration officials, police and VIPs. .
Provision for barricading was also made at Mandir Chowk inside the KVD to make the pilgrims queue up to decongest the roads.
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