Bhopal: As many as 60,000 senior citizens from Madhya Pradesh could visit select
holy places across the country under a special 'pilgrimage' scheme for which
the state government signed an MoU with IRCTC on 8th August.
The
agreement under 'Mukhyamantri Teerth-Darshan Yojna' was signed by Principal
Secretary (Revenue) for Religious Trusts and Endowments, Basant Pratap Singh,
with IRCTC Group General Manager Virendra Singh in presence of chief minister Shivraj
Singh Chouhan, sources said. Describing the moment "historic",
Chouhan said," religion is the soul of this country. Besides physical
progress and prosperity (of its people), the state government has been making
efforts to ensure that senior citizens visit religious places".
'Teerth-Darshan
Yojna' is an ambitious scheme of the state government. As many as 60,000 senior
citizens will be sent on pilgrimage this year, Chouhan is quoted as saying by
the sources. Under the scheme, religious places of all faiths have been
identified and the IRCTC will make all arrangements for the journey of
pilgrims, their food, insurance, medical treatment and providing them with a
guide.
The
first train of the pilgrims under the scheme will leave for Rameshwaram from Habibganj
Railway Station on September 3, 2012, sources said. The selected centres of
pilgrimage are Badrinath, Kedarnath, Jagannath Puri, Dwarkapuri, Haridwar,
Amarnath, Vaishnodevi, Shirdi, Tirupati, Ajmer Sharif, Kashi (Varanasi), Gaya,
Amritsar, Rameshwaram, Sammved-Shikhar, Shravan Belgola, and Velangadi Church,
Nagapattnam (Tamil Nadu).
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