As many as 221 elderly people of the district were flagged off for pilgrimage under the Chief Minister's Tirthadarshan Yojana here on Friday. Deputy Commissioner, Garhwa Dr Neha Arora flagged the bus and sent pilgrims to Palamu.
Under the Chief Minister's pilgrimage scheme, the elderly will visit Odisa from December 15 to 18. During the tour, peoples will be visited Jagannath Temple and various pilgrimage sites in Puri, Konark and Bhuneshwar.
As a district nodal officer, the district public relations officer Anil Kumar has been sent pilgrims from different blocks of the district. A four member medical team has also been dispatched alongwith the pilgrims passengers. All the people boarded the bus from Gondid High School ground in Garhwa and left for Medininagar. After this there will be a special train which carried to pilgrims to the Puri. For people also traveling with pilgrimage for arrangements of food, pause etc during travel. Among the pilgrims, there are 57 people from Garhwa block, 12 from Dhurki block, 12 from Sagma, 11 from Meral, 11 in Manjhiaon, 17, Bardiha 34, Vishunpura 6, Nagar Untari, 14, Bhandaria 34, Baghgarh 21, 11 people from Ramkunda.
On this occasion, SDO Pradeep Kumar, DTO lakshmi Narayan Kishore, Murali Shyam Soni, Anjana Kesri etc. were present.