The authorities are taking necessary steps to ensure that devotees do not face problems during the Uttarakhand’s Char Dham Yatra and to control the crowd.
Questions are being raised at the functioning of the Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) after photographs of Kathavachak Dhirendra Shastri in the Garbh Grah (sanctum sanctorum) of Kedarnath temple went viral on social media. As per tradition and religious beliefs, the temple committee
Taking cognisance of questions being raised by some regarding the gold plating done in the sanctum sanctorum of Kedarnath temple, the Uttarakhand Char Dham Teerth Purohit Mahapanchayat has sought a high level inquiry into the matter. A delegation of the Mahapanchayat office bearers also plans to
Kautilya Singh & Ishita Mishra | TNN
Dehradun: At the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s margdarshak mandal meeting at Haridwar, chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday said that the Uttrakhand government would denotify 51 temples, including Char Dham ones, from the Char Dham Devasthanam Board Act, giving control of the shrines back to priests from the hands of bureaucrats.
Repeating his promises to ‘teerth purohits’ (priests of the shrines) who had been agitating against the Devasthanam Board Act introduced by the Trivendra Rawat government which brought the shrines under the control of the state government the CM said that his government would now review the Act.