Booking has been completed for the 12-day darshan of Kedarnath Dham located in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, officials said on Sunday at Kedarnath Dham.
Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri are collectively called Char Dham And the shrine attracts millions of pilgrims every year.
The Uttarakhand High Court had lifted the ban on the Char Dham Yatra, which officially began on Saturday, allowing the number of pilgrims to visit four revered Himalayan shrines daily.
According to the court, the number of pilgrims allowed daily will be 800 for Kedarnath, 1000 for Badrinath, 600 for Gangotri and 400 for Yamunotri.
Officials said that about 10,010 e-passes have been issued to the devotees who have registered to visit Kedarnath Dham.
Accordingly, 800 people will be allowed to visit Kedarnath daily and those who have registered recently will have to wait for the coming 12 days.
A similar approach is being adopted in Badrinath where a total of 4830 e-passes have been issued so far.
The Uttarakhand government on Friday made it mandatory for pilgrims to keep a negative report of Kovid in its Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Chardham Yatra.
According to the SOP, registration and e-pass will be mandatory for darshan in the four pilgrimages. A COVID negative report is mandatory unless there is a certificate to prove that both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
The Nainital High Court on Thursday lifted the ban on the Chardham Yatra and allowed only those with a mandatory COVID-19 negative report for the annual pilgrimage to be fully vaccinated.
The court ordered the devotees to follow strict COVID-19 protocols and also limited the number of visitors.
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