Kanwar Yatra cancelled for second year in row
The Uttarakhand authorities has cancelled the annual Kanwar Yatra in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kanwariyas (devotees of Loed Shiv) converge at Haridwar to hold water from the river Ganga to supply at Shiv temples in their respective areas.
This is the second year in a row when the federal government has cancelled the Kanwar Yatra. The annual pilgrimage was scheduled to start out on July 25 and conclude on August 6.
Last year too, the state authorities had cancelled the yatra.
The cancellation of the yatra had final year badly hit those that earn their dwelling from spiritual tourism in Uttarakhand. Hotels, ashrams, visitor homes and dharmashalas in the temple cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh was bursting on the seams at the moment of the year due to kanwariyas.
Two weeks of Kanwar Yatra used to generate income value Rs 150 crore in Haridwar however it has come to nil. If one provides Rishikesh, Gaumukh and Gangotri to the listing, the enterprise would contact Rs 500 crore each year, in response to a PTI report.
The cancellation of Kanwar Yatra can be set to hit the merchants of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana who used to take stalls on lease on the honest.
Tourism, particularly spiritual tourism, is the spine of Uttarakhand’s financial system which has been battered arduous by the pandemic.
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