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The Annual Chota Char Dham Yatra resumed in May 2014, after being suspended during the 2013 Uttarakhand floods. The footfall has now improved due to proactive measures taken by the government of Uttarakhand. [6] In 2022, in just two months (10 June – 10 August), 2.8 million pilgrims have visited these Dhams. [7]
While Char Dham Rail will connect the area in Gharwal region, the DPR for the following new rail lines were announced in the 2024-25 to connect the other regions of Uttrakhand: [8] Kumaon region. Tanakpur-Bageshwar-Gairsain-Karanprayag line: [9] has the following two components. Tanakpur-Bageshwar line: from Tanakpur in southeast to Bageshwar ...
The Uttarakhand Chardham Devasthanam Management Act, 2019 was enacted by the Government of Uttarakhand in December 2019. It aims at bringing the Chota Char Dham of Badrinath Temple , Kedarnath Temple , Gangotri Temple , Yamunotri Temple and 49 other temples under the purview of a proposed shrine board.
The Char Dham (Hindi: चारधाम, romanized: Cārdhām transl. the four abodes), or the Chatur Dhama (Sanskrit: चतुर्धाम, romanized: Caturdhāma), [1] is a set of four Hindu pilgrimage sites in India, [2] consisting of Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri and Rameswaram.
Kedarnath is a pilgrimage site or tirtha dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva.It is one of the four pilgrimage spots that form a part of the Uttarkhand Char Dham yatra or Chota Char Dham yatra. [6]
The total cost of ₹12,000 crores and the foundation stone of the project was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 December 2016 at Parade Ground in Dehradun.The highway will be called Char Dham Mahamarg (Char Dham Highway) and the highway construction project will be called as Char Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojana (Char Dham Highway Development Project) and is made to improve the ...
As of March 2024, 70% of the work has been completed. [14] As of September 2024, 176 km tunnels out of total 213 km tunnels of total 126 km route length were complete and 11 stations were under-construction, [ 3 ] The line is on track to open in December 2025.
The yatra used to be a small affair undertaken by a few saints and older devotees until the late 1980s, when it started gaining popularity. [2] Today, the kanwar pilgrimage to Haridwar in particular has grown to be India's largest annual religious gathering, with an estimated 30 million devotees in the 2023 and 2024 events.