Kanvar Yatra News

The yatra begins July 4 and ends on the Shiv Ratri day of the holy Saawan month.
At a meeting presided by Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain, the government also banned use of DJs, walking with hockey sticks, other sticks and canes and transporting gas cylinders atop trucks during the yatra.

Police have been told to coordinate with their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi to ensure that the pilgrims from those states follow the guidelines set by the Uttarakhand government.

The yatra witnesses several thousand bare footed Shiva devotees walking several hundred kilometres to Haridwar and beyond to fetch 'Gangajal' and take it back to offer it to Shivalingas in their villages.

The yatra poses a law and order scare for the Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments as it leads to traffic snarls as well as violent flare ups every year.