JAMMU: The Amarnath Yatra resumed from the Jammu base camp on Tuesday afternoon after remaining suspended for three days in view of the closure of the Jmu-Sri NH for repairs in the Ramban section.A new group of pilgrims were permitted to depart for Kashmir in order to continue on to the Amarnath cave shrine as soon as the roadway, which had been damaged in numerous locations by the constant rain, was opened, they claimed. Typically, Amarnath pilgrims depart Jammu between 3.45 and 4.30 am each day. An estimated 15,000 pilgrims were left stranded in Jammu and other locations when the yatra was suspended.The officials said those trapped at Qazigund were also permitted to travel in the direction of Jammu. Around 8,000 pilgrims were left stranded in Jammu, particularly the Bhagwatinagar base camp, as a result of the yatra’s postponement. The Chanderkot base camp in Ramban district was also home to over 6,000 stranded pilgrims.There were around 2,000 pilgrims trapped at the camps in Kathua and Samba. On July 1, the 62-day yearly pilgrimage to the 3,888-meter-high Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas began. Since June 30, seven separate groups of 43,833 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp for the cave sanctuary. On August 31, the trip is supposed to come to an end.
