Over 1 lakh devotees visit Vaishno Devi in three days

KATRA : Over one lakh pilgrims visited the famous shrine of Vaishno Devi during the first three days of the nine-day Navratra festival in the Katra town of Reasi district. Located 42km from Jammu, along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Katra — base camp for the pilgrims — was decked up to welcome devotees from across the country and abroad. “Over 41,000 devotees offered their prayers on the first very first day of Navratra,” in-charge yatra registration centre, Mahesh Singh Jamwal said.