While pilgrims stranded at the Srinagar camp hoped for the resumption of the yatra on both the Baltal and Pahalgam tracks, authorities have deemed travel on the designated routes unsafe.

“The first convoy of 11 vehicles, carrying 204 pilgrims, headed to the Baltal base camp in North Kashmir, while the second convoy of 39 vehicles, with 908 pilgrims, went to the Nunwan (Pahalgam) base camp in South Kashmir,” officials have said.

The yatra continues to attract a significant number of devotees, marking a record-breaking year for the pilgrimage.

Of the 7,556 pilgrims who paid obeisance today, 4,364 were male, 1,791 female, 106 children, 148 sadhus, and 1,147 security personnel and service providers.

"On Saturday, 7,541 pilgrims undertook the yatra and had darshan of Baba Bholenath on the 29th day of the annual pilgrimage," officials said. This brings the total count of visitors to the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine to 451,881.

The 22nd batch of pilgrims, comprising 3,259 men, 1,482 women, and eight children, departed from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in a convoy of 150 vehicles. The convoy, escorted by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), set off at 3:05 am.

The 20th batch of pilgrims left at 3:05 am in 127 vehicles, escorted by CRPF personnel, from Bhagwati Nagar base camp. The group included 2,734 men, 952 women, and nine children.

An official overseeing yatra arrangements said 14,974 pilgrims visited the shrine on Sunday alone for a ‘darshan’ of the naturally formed ice Shivlingam, bringing the total number of visitors this year to 309,977.

For the past week, between 4,600 and 6,500 pilgrims have been leaving Jammu daily for the twin base camps of Baltal and Pahalgam.

Officials reported that a total of 2, 31,016 pilgrims visited the holy cave in the past 11 days.