Varanasi: Administration of Kashi Vishwanath Temple has stopped ticket sales for Sugam-Darshan, Ritual and Aartis in an effort to minimize the crowd at Kashi Vishwanath Dham and the ticket counters remember the third wave of Covid-19.
After the inauguration of the KV Dham by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 13, there has been a massive increase in pilgrims from all over the country.
As a result, there has been RSHARP ISE in ticket sales, especially for Sugam Darshan because of the high demand for pilgrims who don’t want to stand in the queue for Long.Kvt executive heads Sunil Verma says that going up in the KVT leads to a ticket seeker increase when the third wave of Covid starts so It was decided to stop sales of tickets to avoid meetings at the ticket center, although online bookings have not been stopped.
The crowd inside the KVD also reduced, he said According to the police record, 3.35 Lakh pilgrims entered the KVT place while district officials estimated the presence of more than five lakh inside and around KVD in one day.
As compared to all records of past crowds in one day, which ranges between 2-2.50 lakh on special occasions such as Mahashivratri or Monday Moon Shrawan, the amount of worshipers in the maximum KVT on January 1 lakh to two lakh in recent years except During the previous two waves of Covid-19.Tapi, after the opening of the large-scale increase in worshipers’ footsteps witnessed every day after the police introduced traffic rules and crowd management by limiting vehicles.
Including district administrative officers, police and VIP between the intersection of Maidagin and Godowlia.
The provisions of the barricade at Mandir Chowk in KVD were also made for the formation of pilgrim queues to minimize crowding on the road.
Ticket sales for rituals in KVT stop
