Uttarakhand is also known as Devbhoomi or the Land of the Gods as the state houses many temples and welcomes devotees year-round. There are countless religious sites and circuits that devotees visit and one of the most prominent is the Char Dham Yatra. In Hindi, char means four and dham refers to religious destinations. This Yatra or pilgrimage includes the tour of four holy sites: Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. Just like every year, the Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand is all set to take place in 2024 as well.
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Uttarakhand’s Char Dham Yatra will start on May 10. To participate in the pilgrimage, devotees have been busy registering online. If you are looking forward to going on the Char Dham Yatra, then you will need to get registered immediately as bookings are full till May. 16 lakh devotees till now have registered online for the Char Dham Yatra in the state.
The authorities are taking necessary steps to ensure that devotees do not face any problems during the Char Dham Yatra and to control the crowd. Uttarakhand Tourism Department has fixed the number of daily registrations of devotees to 18,000 for the Kedarnath Yatra, 20,000 for Badrinath, 11,000 for Gangotri and for Yamunotri Dham, it has been fixed to 9,000.
As per reports, the Char Dham Yatra will begin on May 10. 16 lakh devotees have registered online till now and all the dates till May 31 have been booked. If you want to register now, the dates for June will now be available. The booking of Heli Sewa, an initiative of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is also going in full swing as devotees want to avail the Heli services. This option has become quite famous and can be gauged from the record-breaking booking of Heli services.
There has been quite a rush in booking the Heli Sewa for Kedarnath. It is already full for both May and June. Also, 85 per cent of ticket bookings for September and 35 per cent for October have been finalised for this service. Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Char Dham Teerth Purohit Mahapanchayat has demanded relaxation in the registration for the local people and to begin offline registration in Rishikesh and Haridwar.
