Vaishno Devi Devotees To Have Dwell Darshan By way of Cellular App

Jammu:

Devotees of the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district will quickly have stay “darshan” of the cave shrine by its cellular app, officers mentioned.

The app, set to be launched on October 17, the primary day of Navratri, would even have a characteristic to conduct stay “hawan“, they mentioned.

“Though, the coronavirus outbreak briefly halted the massive gathering at spiritual locations, the board is devising new strategies in order that devotees unable to take almost 12 km trek to the cave and may nonetheless have darshan and blessings whereas sitting at house,” a senior official of the board mentioned. 

He mentioned that this is able to be in continuance to the formal launch of house supply of Mata Vaishno Devi pooja prasad launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday.

Pertinently, devotees can e book the pooja prasad by the board’s web site, which is then dispatched by the board to the devotees throughout the nation by velocity put up for which the board has entered into an settlement with the postal division.

This has been carried out on the instructions of the Lt governor for optimum use of technological interventions to develop the attain.

The Chief Government Officer of the Board, Ramesh Kumar, mentioned, at present, “aarti” (day by day ritual of worship) is being live-streamed on a non secular TV channel.

“Nevertheless, the cellular app would supply a possibility to the worshippers throughout the globe to have particular person expertise of godliness and bliss. Cellular App additionally present flexibility so devotees is not going to miss the “Amrit Vela” even when they’re on the transfer,” Mr Kumar mentioned, including that the brand new app for stay “darshan” and “hawan” will work on each “Android” and ”iOS” working methods.

For the reason that inception of the Shrine Board in 1986, there was a steadfast improve within the pilgrims go to (yatra) to the holy shrine, nevertheless, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, it witnessed a major decline this 12 months. 

The yatra was resumed on August 16 initially with a ceiling of 5,000 pilgrims per day with the security procedures.

Private protecting gear kits have been supplied to the Shrine Board staff and customary working procedures have been put in place to maintain the an infection beneath verify.