{"id":15935,"date":"2018-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/23\/bulletproof-vests-must-for-amarnath-yatris-from-gujarat\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:00:00","slug":"bulletproof-vests-must-for-amarnath-yatris-from-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/03\/23\/bulletproof-vests-must-for-amarnath-yatris-from-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletproof Vests Must for Amarnath Yatris from Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/bulletproof-vests-must-for-amarnath-yatris-from-gujarat\/articleshow\/63421852.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VADODARA, INDIA, March 23, 2018 (Times of India): People from Gujarat planning to go on the Amarnath yatra this year, will have to shell out more money, with the state government issuing a new guideline making it mandatory for pilgrims using tour bus operators to wear bulletproof jackets. Less than a year after a terror strike in J&#038;K&#8217;s Anantnag on a bus carrying pilgrims from Gujarat, the guideline also makes it mandatory for bus operators to ensure drivers&#8217; age limit isn&#8217;t over 50 years. &#8220;The guideline to provide bulletproof jackets has come from the state home department. It is an advice,&#8221; RM Jadhav, transport commissioner, told TOI on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But operators say buying the jackets is an extra for them, and pilgrims. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t follow the guideline, the state won&#8217;t give us permit for the tour. It involves paperwork and problems for us,&#8221; said a tour operator in Vadodara. &#8220;We will have to ask tourists to buy their own bulletproof jackets as we can&#8217;t afford it. A bulletproof jacket costs about US$184.50&#8221; says Siddique Gandhi, VP, Baroda Tours and Travels Association. Around 5,000-7,000 pilgrims register for the yatra from Gujarat every year. The number of unregistered yatris is nearly 35,000. Tour operators normally charge about $154 per person, Gandhi says, adding that many tourists won&#8217;t be able to shell out the extra money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source VADODARA, INDIA, March 23, 2018 (Times of India): People from Gujarat planning to go on the Amarnath yatra this,&#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-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","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=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}