Under the Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana organised by the Social Welfare Department of Chhattisgarh Government, about 1,000 pilgrims from Raipur and Balodabazar districts will leave for seven-day pilgrimage to Madurai and Rameswaram from Raipur railway station on Friday.
According to an official Press statement issued on Thursday, the Social Welfare Department has issued the Teerth Yatra programme for the year 2013-14, in which senior citizens of the State would be sent to important pilgrimages in two phases this year. In the phase one 12,000 pilgrims and in phase two, 10,000 pilgrims will visit different pilgrimages.
The State Government, through the Social Welfare Department, had launched the Mukkyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana to send senior citizens of the state to various important pilgrimages at Government cost, once in their life.
Officers of the Social Welfare Department here on Thursday said that during the current financial year, 1,000 pilgrims from Narayanpur, Kondagaon and North Bastar (Kanker) districts visited Vaishno Devi and Jammu for six days on April 6 last and returned to the state, under the Mukkyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana phase one. likewise, in phase two, pilgrims from Rajnandgaon and Kabirdham districts were also sent to Vaishno Devi and Jammu on April 7 and they have returned to the State after the visit.
The officers said that pilgrims from Mahasamund, Gariabundh and Dhamtari districts will leave from Raipur for a six-day pilgrimage to Haridwar and Rishikesh on April 20. Similarly, pilgrims from Durg, Bemathara and Balod districts will leave for 7-day pilgrimage to Tirupathi, Madurai and Rameswaram from Durg railway station on April 27.
Pilgrims from Rajnandgaon and Kabirdham districts will leave for five-day pilgrimage to Haridwar and Rishikesh on May 5; and pilgrims from Bastar, Dantewada, Bijapur and Sukma districts will visit Ujjain and Omkareshwar from May 11; pilgrims of Janjgir-Champa and Korba districts will visit Madhura and Vrindavan from May 16; pilgrims from Raigarh and Jashpur district will visit Prayag and Kashi from May 21 and pilgrims from Korea, Surajpur, Balrampur and Sarguja district will leave for a six-day pilgrimage to Dwarka, Somnath and Nageshwar on May 28 from Ambikapur.
According to the officers, pilgrims from Bilaspur and Mungeli districts will leave for a four-day Shirdi, Shanisingnapur and Triambkeshwar pilgrimage from Bilaspur railway station of June 5.
They said that from all
the districts of the state a total of 1,000 pilgrims will leave for a five-day Velankanni
and Nagapattanam pilgrimage from Bilaspur Railway
station on June 11.