Devotees to receive Mata Vaishno Devi Prasad through Speed Post

Katra:  Devotees will now receive prasad through speed post from the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi (SMVD) Shrine Board, after an agreement was entered with the Department of Posts on Saturday.

According to a statement by the SMVD, Ramesh Kumar, Chief Executive Officer and Gaurav Srivastava, Director of the Postal Service in Jammu and Kashmir signed the agreement at the Spiritual Growth Centre in Katra.

“For facilitating the devotees, especially during the prevailing circumstances, the Board today introduced the facility of delivery of Prasad at their places. This initiative of the Board will greatly help the devotees to avail the Prasad who could not undertake the yatra due to the circumstances created by the pandemic,” it said.

Devotees can book either through the official website of the Shrine Board or through telephonic mode.Three categories of prasad have been launched by the Board on a no-profit no-loss basis.

Further statement added, ‘supplementary facilities like helicopter, battery operated vehicles and passenger ropeway between Bhawan and Bhairon Ji have also been pressed into service for the visiting pilgrims’. The yatra to the Holy Shrine resumed on August 16.