Retired General VK Singh, Union Minister of State for Road Transport, visited Mata Vaishno Devi on Monday. Along with this, he also attended the divine aarti to be held in the evening in Maa Vaishno Devi Bhavan. Minister of State VK Singh, who visited Jammu and Kashmir, arrived in a special helicopter from Jammu at the Birch Helipad on the road to Bhavan. Here Naresh Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of SDM and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board and other Shrine Board officials were received.

Riding in a battery car from the helipad, Minister of State BK Singh reached Vaishno Devi Bhawan directly and rested for some time. After this, he attended the divine aarti of Maa Vaishno Devi in ​​the evening and offered special worship. At the same time, according to the information received from the building, Union Minister of State VK Singh will rest at night in the building itself and on Tuesday morning will reach the bird helipad from the building in a battery car from where he will leave for Jammu by helicopter.

Battery car route of mother Vaishno Devi opened on the sixth day
The battery car route, which was closed due to landslides on January 15, opened on Monday for the sixth day. With this, the battery car service also became smooth. The devotees breathed a sigh of relief as the battery car route opened. On January 15, due to torrential rains and inclement weather, there was a heavy landslide in the Birch Colony area on the battery car route. Due to this the shed built on the Yatra route was damaged and three devotees were also injured.

After this, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board closed the battery route for the movement of devotees. Removal of debris lying on the route as well as repairing the damaged shed was underway. The inclement weather continued to be a hindrance. Finally, on the sixth day, the route was opened at 9:00 am on Monday, after thorough cleaning and repairing the damaged shed. It was sunny on Monday morning. After that, there was a sudden clash of dense clouds on the sky and cold winds kept going. But regardless of this, devotees, after registering themselves, proceeded towards Vaishno Devi Bhavan.

On Monday, all services including helicopter service from base camp Katra, battery car service running on battery car route, passenger cable car service running between Vaishno Devi Bhavan and Bhairav ​​Valley were available to devotees and devotees made all these services Benefitted. By 4:00 pm on Monday, about 9,000 devotees had registered themselves and left for Vaishno Devi Bhavan.

The ancient cave was opened for the devotees on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, 15 January, which was the darshan of the mother Vaishno Devi, who was offering prayers from the ancient cave. Since then, supernatural views of the ancient cave are also available to the devotees from time to time. Devotees of the ancient cave were available on Sunday night from 12:00 am to 2:00 pm. At the same time, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, devotees from the ancient cave had a supernatural vision of Mother Vaishno Devi. After this, the ancient cave was closed once again as the crowd grew. SDM Bhawan Naresh Kumar said that whenever the number of devotees on Vaishno Devi Bhawan is less then the ancient cave will be opened for darshan.