Maha Shivratri celebrated with religious fervour at Shiv Khori

About 1,07,453 devotees pay obeisance

5 Dariya News

Reasi 07-Mar-2016

Maha Shivratri festival was celebrated with great enthusiasm and religious fervour at Shiv khori, here today.Amidst chanting of religious slogans  the devotees in large number thronged the  shrine and offered special prayers. A grand Shiv Khori mela was also organized by the district administration Reasi, Shri Shiv Khori Shrine Board(SSKSB) and Tourism department on the eve of Shivratri  at Ransoo, base camp of holy shrine. Langars and Bhandaras were   arranged for the pilgrims at the base camp, Ransoo and near the shrine. The shrine was highly decorated for the last two days and administration had made elaborate arrangements for the successful conduct of mela.

As per the Executive Officer, SSKSB, Mahesh Sharma,   about 1,07,453 devotees have visited  Shivkhori  so far and the yatra was going on smoothly. About 30 different departmental stalls were also set up for providing awareness to the people about various government  schemes and giving Job oriented information to the Youth. Cultural Melange by Natrang besides Bhajans, Lambi Bhakh and Kud dance were also presented by the artists during the 2nd day of  mela which was  highly appreciated by the audience.DIG Police, Udhampur-Reasi Range,  Surinder Gupta and SSP Reasi   Sujit Kumar also  visited  the Shiv khori  to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva.