{"id":8594,"date":"2009-12-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/25\/a-helpline-for-hindu-pilgrims\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T12:00:00","slug":"a-helpline-for-hindu-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/25\/a-helpline-for-hindu-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"A Helpline For Hindu Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaindian.com\/newsportal\/uncategorized\/vhp-launching-helpline-for-hindu-pilgrims_100292407.html\">www.thaindian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCKNOW, INDIA, December 21, 2009: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is starting a toll-free helpline service in India for Hindu pilgrims and tourists to help them in booking low-cost accommodation, hiring vehicles and medical services during pilgrimages. The 24-hour helpline, which would be functional from January 2010, will be part of the VHP&#8217;s &#8220;social responsibility programs&#8221;, the group&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand organizing secretary Purshottam Narain Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the forthcoming helpline would immensely help Hindu tourists and pilgrims, particularly those coming from abroad, who don&#8217;t know much about the visiting place and become an easy prey for touts who charge hefty amounts on the pretext of providing accommodation, hiring vehicles and other services,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, VHP&#8217;s international president Ashok Singhal will launch the helpline during the upcoming Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, in Uttarakhand&#8217;s holy city Haridwar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thaindian.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, December 21, 2009: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is starting a toll-free helpline service in India,&#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-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","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=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}