{"id":24185,"date":"2026-07-03T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:10:50","slug":"amarnath-ji-yatra-2026-first-batch-of-pilgrims-flagged-off-from-baltal-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/amarnath-ji-yatra-2026-first-batch-of-pilgrims-flagged-off-from-baltal-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026 : First batch of pilgrims flagged-off from Baltal Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GANDERBAL, JULY 03: The Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026 commenced Friday with the ceremonial flagging-off of the first batch of pilgrims from the Baltal Base Camp in Ganderbal district amid an atmosphere of devotion and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The flag-off ceremony, as per an official statement, was led by Rahul Yadav, Managing Director, J&amp;K Power Development Corporation and Nodal Officer for the Baltal Axis, along with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Jatin Kishore; Deputy Inspector General of Police (Armed) Kashmir, Maqsood-ul-Zaman; Senior Superintendent of Police Ganderbal, Sudhanshu Dhama, besides officers from the Civil and Police Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the occasion, the officers extended their best wishes to the pilgrims and prayed for a safe, peaceful and spiritually fulfilling pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Baltal Base Camp resonated with chants of &#8220;Bam Bam Bhole&#8221; and &#8220;Har Har Mahadev&#8221; as devotees including men, women, elderly pilgrims and sadhus, began their onward journey to the Holy Cave Shrine of Shri Amarnath Ji.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commencement of the Yatra marks the beginning of one of the country&#8217;s most revered spiritual pilgrimages and reflects the coordinated efforts of the administration and all stakeholder departments to facilitate a secure, seamless and memorable pilgrimage experience for every devotee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANDERBAL, JULY 03: The Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra-2026 commenced Friday with the ceremonial flagging-off of the first batch of pilgrims from the Baltal Base Camp in Ganderbal district amid an atmosphere of devotion and enthusiasm. The flag-off ceremony, as per an official statement, was led by Rahul Yadav, Managing Director, J&amp;K Power Development Corporation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24187,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions\/24187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}