New Delhi: In view of COVID-19, Delhi Catastrophe Administration Authority (DDMA) has determined to cancel the organisation of the Kanwar Yatra within the nationwide capital.
DDMA in an official order issued on Sunday stated that no celebrations, processions or gatherings associated to the yatra, scheduled from July 25, will probably be allowed within the nationwide capital.
“The Kanwar Yatra has been banned in Uttarakhand, however regardless of this, there’s a danger of the unfold of the virus attributable to crowding or taking out processions, in view of which this choice has been taken,” the official discover stated.
The transfer has come only a day after the Uttar Pradesh authorities banned the non secular occasion on Saturday. The choice got here after the Supreme Courtroom stated it can not enable the Uttar Pradesh authorities to carry 100 per cent bodily Kanwar Yatra in view of Covid. The court docket harassed that sentiments, together with non secular have been subservient to the Proper to Life.
Earlier, Uttarakhand authorities additionally referred to as off the Kanwar Yatra amid fears expressed by consultants of a doable third wave of Coronavirus and the chance posed by such gatherings.
The Kanwar Yatra was set to start from July 25. Throughout this non secular occasion, Shiva devotees referred to as kanwariyas’ from northern states together with Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi journey on foot or by different means to gather water from River Ganga at Haridwar to supply it at Shiva temples of their areas.