RAJKOT: Gir Somnath\u00a0district administration has issued a notification banning people from taking bath or entering sea near Somnath temple in\u00a0Gir-Somnath\u00a0district to avoid any untowardly accidents. Somnath temple is a popular pilgrim destination and is visited by thousands of devotees from across the country throughout the year.<\/p>\n
A notification issued by the Gir-Somnath district administration states, \u201cPilgrims coming from different parts of the country are not well aware of the geographical condition near the seashore. In the past, accidents where pilgrims have drowned in the sea have been reported.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe seashore seems shallow but a little further inside there are rocky stones. So, people venturing into the water to bathe cannot come out easily.\u201d<\/p>\n
The notification stated that the undercurrent in the sea was very strong. \u201cThere have been incidents of people committing suicide in this sea with the belief that their soul will be liberated,\u201d the notification reads.<\/p>\n
District collector\u00a0Ajya Prakash\u00a0and additional collector\u00a0H R Modi\u00a0could not be reached for comments on the notification. But sources alleged that there were no signboards instructing pilgrims not to go towards the seashore and there were no instructions for pilgrims to remain careful while in seawater. Officers publish notifications in the paper only to wash their hands off any responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RAJKOT: Gir Somnath\u00a0district administration has issued a notification banning people from taking bath or entering sea near Somnath temple in\u00a0Gir-Somnath\u00a0district to avoid any untowardly accidents. Somnath temple is a popular pilgrim destination and is visited by thousands of devotees from across the country throughout the year. A notification issued by the Gir-Somnath district administration states, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}