Char Dham Yatra 2023 is moving towards a new record this time. In the year 2022, a maximum of 46 lakh 27 thousand 292 pilgrims had visited Hemkund Sahib and Chardham. Whereas this year this figure was crossed with about one and a half months left for the journey. The special thing is that this year a record number of pilgrims have reached Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham.

Durga Nautiyal, Rishikesh. Char Dham Yatra 2023: Char Dham Yatra is moving towards a new record this time. In the year 2022, a maximum of 46 lakh 27 thousand 292 pilgrims visited Hemkund Sahib and Chardham. Whereas, this year this figure was crossed with about one and a half months left for the journey. The special thing is that this year a record number of pilgrims have reached Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham, while the number of pilgrims in Kedarnath has reached close to last year’s figure.

The doors of Yamunotri and Gangotri Dham were opened on 22 April.

It may take some more time to touch the previous figures in Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib. Chardham Yatra started on 22nd April this year with the opening of the doors of Yamunotri and Gangotri Dham. The doors of Kedarnath were opened on 25th April and Badrinath Dham was opened on 27th April. Chardham Yatra was in full swing in May and June, but there was some slackness in it when the rains started in mid-July.

In August, travel was badly affected due to the blockage of travel routes in many places. Due to road blockage, the number of passengers in Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham remained zero for some days.

More than 40 thousand pilgrims are reaching Chardham every day

As soon as the weather became favorable after the rainy season, Chardham Yatra again started gaining momentum from the second week of September and currently, it has again reached its peak. At present more than 40 thousand pilgrims are reaching Hemkund and Chardham every day.

Most pilgrims reached Kedarnath

Most pilgrims are reaching Kedarnath this year. So far 15,31,946 pilgrims have visited Baba in the Dham. Whereas, last year this number was 15,63,275 during the entire journey period. As compared to 17,63,549 pilgrims who reached Badrinath during the entire pilgrimage period last year, only 14,57,755 pilgrims have reached Badrinath now. In contrast, 6,24,516 pilgrims had reached Gangotri Dham during the entire yatra period last year. This time this number has reached 8,16,362.

This time too, 673462 pilgrims have visited Yamunotri this time as compared to 4,85,688. So far 1,68,057 pilgrims have reached Hemkund. This number remained at 1,90,264 during the entire travel period last year.