Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims from the Chhattisgarh have reason to have smile as the State Government has doubled the grants for Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage from the current fiscal. Now the devotees aspiring to visit this sacred place would get Rs50,000 as grant. Previously which was Rs25,000 per head, informed an official statement here on Saturday.
Culture Minister Brijmohan Agrwal had made the announcement in this regard, in State Assembly during discussion over the departmental grant demands for fiscal year 2013-14. It is to be noted that state government has embarked this scheme 5 years back, in 2008-09. Culture minister Agrwal informed that in these five years during 2008-09 Total of 345 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims of the state have received the grant. 45 people got benefited In the year 2008-09 , 59 in 2009-10, 75 pilgrims got the benefit under the scheme in 2010-11, 43 in the 2011-12 and 120 pilgrims were benefited under the scheme in year 2012-13 he added.
Religious trust and religious affair department had made budgetary provision of about Rs1.1 in this fiscal for the kailash Mansarovar pilgrims of the State, Minister Agrwal said.