{"id":13766,"date":"2014-09-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/04\/heavy-rain-forces-50000-pilgrims-to-abandon-nanda-devi-jat-yatra\/"},"modified":"2014-09-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:00:00","slug":"heavy-rain-forces-50000-pilgrims-to-abandon-nanda-devi-jat-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/04\/heavy-rain-forces-50000-pilgrims-to-abandon-nanda-devi-jat-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Forces 50,000 Pilgrims to Abandon Nanda Devi Jat Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/indiahome\/indianews\/article-2740136\/Heavy-rain-forces-50-000-pilgrims-abandon-Nanda-Devi-Jat-Yatra.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, September 1, 2014 (Daily Mail): Poor preparation and bad weather saved the Uttarakhand government a catastrophe as it forced a major chunk of pilgrims to abandon the Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra midway at Bedni in the Chamoli district.<\/p>\n<p>Monday saw over 50,000 pilgrims return, while only 8,000 opted to undertake the arduous trek for Patar Nachoniya, located at an altitude of 12,000 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Mohan Singh, a native of Tharali said: &#8220;I had passed the medical test but I decided to return after the heavy rainfall. We stayed in the open under our umbrella after a wet Sunday night.&#8221; &#8220;The state government makes huge claims of elaborated arrangements in television commercials but on ground nothing exists,&#8221; said another villager.<\/p>\n<p>The Yatra is hosted every twelfth year and is presently underway in Uttarakhand&#8217;s Chamoli district. &#8220;The number is now manageable and I am thankful to people for accepting my appeal to withdraw their Yatra. They retreated on their own,&#8221; said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, September 1, 2014 (Daily Mail): Poor preparation and bad weather saved the Uttarakhand government a catastrophe as it,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}