Ayodhya Now Included In Delhi Govt’s Free Pilgrimage Scheme For Senior Citizens, Announces Kejriwal

The scheme aims to enable 77,000 citizens of Delhi (1,100 from each of the 70 assembly constituencies) who are above 60 years of age to go on a pilgrimage on any of the five popular routes once a year.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Analiza Pathak

Updated: October 27, 2021, 1:48 PM IST

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Ayodhya Now Included In Delhi Govt's Free Pilgrimage Scheme For Senior Citizens, Announces Kejriwal

New Delhi: Soon, senior citizens will be able to visit Ayodhya and offer prayers at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir on a pilgrimage funded by Delhi government. This was announced by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday.

Under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Teerath Yatra Yojna’, the Delhi government bears complete expenditure on free pilgrimage of senior citizens to places like Jagganath Puri, Rameshwaram, Shirdi, Mathura, Haridwar, Tirupati among others, he said.

The announcement by Kejriwal comes ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls early next year which his AAP plans to contest. “Now Ayodhya has also been included in Delhi Govt’s Tirth Yatra Yojana. IT will be free of cost for the aged people. They can also bring a member/kin with them to the yatra,” Kejriwal said while addressing the media.

Now Ayodhya has also been included in Delhi Govt's Tirth Yatra Yojana; to be free of cost for the aged people. They can also bring a member/kin along: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal pic.twitter.com/TuOmPkgMLw

— ANI (@ANI) October 27, 2021

Kejriwal further added that Teerth Yatra Yojna, which was halted due to COVID, will be made operational again within the next one month. “All of you can register again,” he added.

The scheme aims to enable 77,000 citizens of Delhi (1,100 from each of the 70 assembly constituencies) who are above 60 years of age to go on a pilgrimage on any of the five popular routes once a year.

The routes include Delhi-Mathura-Vrindavan-Agra-Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi-Haridwar-Rishikesh-Neelkanth, Delhi-Ajmer-Pushkar, Delhi-Amritsar-Wagah border-Anandpur Sahib and Delhi-Vaishno Devi-Jammu.