Srinagar: The Minister of State for Home Affairs India on Wednesday informed the Parliament that around 42 pilgrims have died due to natural causes till July 19, 2022, during the annual Amarnath Yatra.
In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, MoS Home, Nityanand Rai, as per the news agency Kashmir News Observer, said that in 2020 and 2021 Amarnath Yatra was not organized owing to COVID pandemic.
He said that the government has taken several steps to protect the lives of pilgrims such as the mandatory requirement of compulsory health certificates, the Installation of Oxygen booths, the setting up of hospitals at various locations along Yatra route, monitoring or wellbeing of Yatris through Radio Frequency-based Identification (RFID), installation of Automatic Weather Stations, issue of health and weather advisories from time to time.
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