Jammu, Oct 8: The pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district resumed Wednesday morning after remaining suspended for three days owing to inclement weather, officials said.

The traffic on the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was also partially allowed after a day-long suspension, while all government and private schools reopened in Jammu and elsewhere after two days’ closure, the officials said.

A spokesman of the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board said the pilgrimage to the shrine restarted with the opening of all registration counters around 6 am on Wednesday.

The pilgrimage is progressing smoothly with hundreds of devotees leaving base camp Katra for the shrine.

The yatra to the shrine was suspended along with Machail Mata ya

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