To make the Adi Kailash and Om Parvat pilgrimage easier for devotees, the Pithoragarh district administration on Sunday started a new facility allowing pilgrims to get their inner line permits from the district hospital.
The move has been introduced to simplify the application process as the number of pilgrims and tourists visiting the region has increased this season.
District Tourism Officer Kirti Chandra Arya said the new facility has been set up in Room No. 10 of the Pithoragarh district hospital on the instructions of the district magistrate. He said pilgrims can now collect their inner line permits from the designated room immediately after completing their mandatory medical fitness tests.
The administration issued 1,645 inner line permits on Sunday alone. With these fresh registrations, the total number of inner line permits issued since the start of the pilgrimage season on May 1 has reached 18,561.
“As the number of pilgrims continues to rise, we have now started this facility in Pithoragarh as well,” Arya said.
The Adi Kailash Yatra began in 1981 after the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra resumed. The number of visitors increased significantly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site in October 2023.
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