Free travel to Ayodhya for senior citizens from next week. Check date, registrations

Starting next week, Delhi government will be sending senior citizens from the national capital to Ayodhya for darshan of Shri Ram Lalla under the free pilgrimage scheme the ‘Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra Yojana’, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced today.

“Our first train for Ayodhya will be leaving on 3rd December, registrations have started,” he said on Tuesday. As many as 1000 people will be leaving for Ayodhya on the train. “There is great demand from senior citizens for the pilgrimage scheme.

We are getting large number of applications for pilgrimage to different places, including Ayodhya. Pilgrims for other places will be sent after preparations are complete,” said Kamal Bansal, chairman of the Delhi government’s Tirth Yatra Vikas Samiti.

The city government arrange pilgrimage to senior citizen for free. Under this scheme, the pilgrims get to visit Vaishno Devi, Shirdi, Rameswaram, Dwarka, Puri, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Mathura, Vrindavan and other sites. Last month, the city government added Ayodhya to the list. 

After the proposal was approved by the Cabinet, the chief minister had said, “Senior citizens of Delhi can now visit Ayodhya and offer prayers at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi for free.”

The pilgrimage scheme had been halted due to COVID-19, but now instructions have been issued to resume it, the official said, adding that trains for various destinations are expected to start in the next month.

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