Jammu and Kashmir: Navratri festival will be celebrated with simplicity in Katra during the Corona period

  • | Wednesday | 30th September, 2020

Amid Coronavirus outbreak, this time the Navratri Festival will be celebrated in Dharmanagri Katra with simplicity. There will be only Durga Pujan in Katra and tableau of the three Pindis in the form of Mother Vaishno Devi.

Amid Coronavirus outbreak, this time the Navratri Festival will be celebrated in Dharmanagri Katra with simplicity. There will be only Durga Pujan in Katra and tableau of the three Pindis in the form of Mother Vaishno Devi. There will be no international riots, offering competition, comedy satire, Srimad Bhagwat Katha and cultural programs. This decision was taken in a meeting held at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board office headed by Mandalayukta Sanjeev Verma on Tuesday. 

It was decided in the meeting that as before, lights would be installed at every square-intersection and main gate of the town for nine days. Dharmanagri will be decorated like a bride. Tableaux will be taken out of the main market by offering prayers to the pindis. IGP Jammu Mukesh Singh, District Commissioner Indu Kambal Chib, Assistant Director of Tourism Department Neelam Khajuria, SDM Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, Rakesh Wazir from Hotel Union, Shiv Sharma from Dangal Committee were present in the meeting.
A simple ceremony was also held in 2014

Earlier in 2014, Navratri celebrations were celebrated in a simple manner even after the death of 40 people who performed kud dance in a landslide in Saddal village. This time also, all the committees have taken the same decision in view of the corona epidemic.

In the meeting, the local people raised the issue of harassing the pilgrims who visited Maa Vaishno in Lakhanpur and increasing the number of other devotees. Along with this, an appeal was made to increase the duration of corona test from 48 to 96 hours. In the meeting, the NAPA President raised the issue of the town`s market, which the officials assured to resolve.


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