No Kedarnath-Badrinath pilgrimage for 3 years i. Pilgrimage to the shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath in Uttarakhand cannot resume for three years due to extensive damage caused by heavy rains and floods, an official said Thursday. ii. According to officials of the two shrines, the two pilgrimage towns have been so badly devastated that there was nothing "but mud, devastation and death" around the highly revered temples visited by millions. iii. Survivor says nothing left in Kedarnath except the temple. iv. Sukhatia, who has difficulty in standing properly even now, said he is 63 but has never witnessed such a horrible scene earlier. vi. "It was shocking to watch a place bustling with people metamorphose in a matter of a few hours into an island of death and destruction," he said. vii. Hotels, shops, houses have all vanished, Sitaram, who came down to Dharali on foot in order to escape the calamity viii. The chances of reviving the pilgrimage "for the next few years" was grim, chief executive Officer of the Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee BD Singh said.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:40:02 +0000
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