July 26: Locals in Rasuwa have started transporting food to arrange meals for the devotees who reach the holy shrine of Gosaikunda for the Janai purnima fair on August 12. 

Pasang Gyalpo Tamang, a businessman of Lauri Binayak, shared that the local hoteliers have starting hoarding food after the Gosainkunda Area Development Committee estimated that 15,000 devotees would attend the religious fair of Gosainkunda on the occasion of Janai Purnima on August 12.

According to the hoteliers, there are 67 permanently built hotels and lodges in nine places along the route to Gosainkunda, including 43 in Dhunche, two in Tiwari Bagar, two in Khanti, one in Deurali, two in Dimsa, seven in Chandanbari, two in Cholangpati, three in Lauri Binayak and four in Gosaikunda. 

Ramcharan Gajurel, district president of the Hotel Association of Rasuwa, informed that pilgrims visiting Gosainkund will not have any problem with food and accommodation.

At the same time, the Gosainkunda Area Development Committee has said that if there is a problem with accommodation, temporary shelters will be arranged for the travellers.

Foodstuffs are being transported by porters as well as mules and horses and it is said that about 50 sacks of rice have reached Gosainkunda. Stating that more rice and other materials are being transported, hotelier Tamang estimated that 150 sacks of rice will be consumed in Gosaikunda during the fair.

Businessmen say that arrangements have been made to provide materials such as noodles, biscuits, beaten rice, water, cashew nuts and almonds from the hotel for the Gosaikunda fair. Due to Covid-19, local hotels that could not see the crowd of passengers for two years are eager to welcome the devotees this year.

Sanjeev DM, president of the Gosainkunda Area Development Committee, said that devotees will reach Gosainkunda on August 7 to observe the fair, which starts on the day of Putrada Ekadashi (the 11^th day of the waxing moon) on August 8 and ends on the full moon day on August 12.

The Langtang National Park has requested the devotees who came to perform the pilgrimage not to destroy the vegetation and not to throw garbage recklessly.