{"id":22309,"date":"2025-08-05T01:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=22309"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:31:20","slug":"amarnath-yatra-suspended-to-carry-out-maintenance-of-urgent-nature-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2025\/08\/05\/amarnath-yatra-suspended-to-carry-out-maintenance-of-urgent-nature-after-heavy-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Yatra Suspended to Carry Out Maintenance of Urgent Nature After Heavy Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SRINAGAR, INDIA, August 1, 2025 (The Indian Express): The annual Amarnath pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine in south Kashmir has been suspended, with the government taking up \u201cmaintenance works of urgent nature\u201d on both routes to the shrine \u201cfollowing heavy rain.\u201d Divisional Commissioner Kashmir V. K. Bhiduri said the annual pilgrimage, scheduled to end on August 9, has been suspended along both the Sonamarg-Baltal and Pahalgam-Chandwanri routes. He said that the \u201crepair and maintenance works are already being carried out\u201d on the Pahalgam route of the Yatra. \u201cDue to the recent heavy rain, repair and maintenance works are required to be undertaken on the Baltal Axis of Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra route. In the interest of safety of the yatris, no yatra will be allowed on August 3 from the Baltal route also. Further updates will be issued in due course of time,\u201d he said. Bhiduri said more than 405,000  pilgrims \u201chave paid obeisance at the Holy Cave of Shri Amarnathji this year\u201d.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/amarnath-yatra-suspended-maintenance-urgent-nature-heavy-rain-10164304\/\n\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/amarnath-yatra-suspended-maintenance-urgent-nature-heavy-rain-10164304\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, INDIA, August 1, 2025 (The Indian Express): The annual Amarnath pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine in south Kashmir,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}