23-09-2020

The app set to be launched on October 17, the first day of Navratri, would also have a feature to conduct live 'hawan', they said.

Devotees of the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir�s Reasi district will soon have live �darshan� of the cave shrine through its mobile app, officials said. The app, set to be launched on October 17, the first day of Navratri, would also have a feature to conduct live �hawan�, they said.

�Although, the coronavirus outbreak briefly halted the large gathering at religious places, the board is devising new methods so that devotees unable to take nearly 12 km trek to the cave and can still have darshan and blessings while sitting at home,� a senior official of the board said.

He said that this would be in continuance to the formal launch of home delivery of Mata Vaishno Devi pooja prasad launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday. Pertinently, devotees can book the pooja prasad through the board�s website, which is then dispatched by the board to the devotees across the country through speed post for which the board has entered into an agreement with the postal department. This has been done on the directions of the Lt governor for optimum use of technological interventions to expand the reach.