To make sure smoother pilgrimage to the Vaishno Devi shrine, a ropeway is being put in between Katra city and Sanjichhat at a price of Rs 300 crore, which is predicted to be operational by December 2026, shrine board officers stated on Wednesday.
As soon as accomplished, the ropeway will scale back the oneway pilgrimage time from current 6-7 hours on foot to lower than an hour. Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board Chief Govt Officer Anshul Garg stated the ropeway will take solely six minutes from Katra to Sanjichhat, after which one might attain the shrine strolling for 30-45 minutes. Shrine Board is headed by UT’s Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.
The ropeway may have a capability to hold 1,000 individuals in an hour, Garg added.
The undertaking is being applied in Public Non-public Partnership (PPP) mode by the Gurgaon-based G R Infrastructure Restricted that began work on it final month after coming into into an settlement with the Shrine Board earlier this 12 months.
Over 86 lakh pilgrims have already paid obeisance on the holy shrine this 12 months, sources stated, including that the determine is more likely to cross the 1 crore mark. Final 12 months, greater than 95 lakh pilgrims had paid obeisance on the shrine.
Lately, the Shrine Board has made many additions to the services for pilgrims, together with a skywalk at Mata Vaishno Devi Bhawan, new group kitchen, and railway registration centres. Aside from this, a state-of-the-art name centre has been arrange at Katra city and it operates round the clock, manning almost 2,500 calls day by day from pilgrims throughout the nation and overseas.
