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The pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills successful Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi territory resumed Wednesday (October 8, 2025) greeting aft remaining suspended for 3 days owing to inclement weather, officials said.
The postulation connected the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar nationalist road was besides partially allowed aft a day-long suspension, portion each authorities and backstage schools reopened successful Jammu and elsewhere aft 2 days' closure, the officials said.
A spokesperson of the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board said the pilgrimage to the shrine restarted with the opening of each registration counters astir 6 a.m. connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025).
The pilgrimage is progressing smoothly with hundreds of devotees leaving basal campy Katra for the shrine.
The yatra to the shrine was suspended on with Machail Mata Yatra successful Kishtwar territory connected October 5 to 7 pursuing prediction of wide rainfall successful the plain and snowfall successful the precocious altitude areas.
Machail Mata Yatra besides resumed this greeting with the betterment successful the wide upwind conditions, the officials said.
After day-long closure owed to aggregate landslides, the officials said the postulation connected Jammu-Srinagar nationalist road resumed this morning.
“Jammu-Srinagar National Highway [NH-44] has not been afloat restored. The roadworthy is successful mediocre information astatine Tharad [Udhampur], Nashri-Dalwas and betwixt Marog and Kishtwari Pather [Ramban], truthful lone one-way postulation of Light Motor Vehicles was allowed from Srinagar towards Jammu this morning,” a postulation section authoritative said.
He said the Mughal roadworthy connecting Poonch and Rajouri districts successful Jammu with southbound Kashmir’s Shopian territory is cleared of snowfall astatine Peer Ki Gali and is unfastened for airy centrifugal vehicles from some sides.
The postulation connected Kishtwar-Sinthan-Anantnag road, besides different alternate nexus betwixt Jammu and Srinagar, is inactive closed owed to snowfall accumulation astatine Sinthan top, the authoritative said.
