Srinagar, July 25: Amarnath Yatra resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for six days due to bad weather, with the yatra reopening on both the Pahalgam and Baltal routes.

The yatra had been suspended on July 19 as a precautionary measure following persistent rainfall and adverse weather conditions along both the 48-km Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the 14-km Baltal route in Ganderbal district leading to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine.
Officials said the yatra resumed today after the weather improved and the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway became operational again following a three-day closure triggered by landslides and shooting stones at several locations along the Udhampur-Ramban stretch.
Hundreds of pilgrims set off towards the cave shrine from both the Baltal and Pahalgam base camps on Saturday morning amid light rainfall.
From Jammu, the 18th batch of pilgrims comprising 6,269 devotees -- including 1,470 women, 25 children and 54 sadhus -- left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in a convoy of 223 vehicles under tight security at around 2.40 am for the Baltal base camp.
No convoy was dispatched from Jammu for the Pahalgam route, officials said.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch of pilgrims from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp on July 2, a day before the yatra formally began in the Valley.
The yatra is scheduled to conclude on August 28, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan.
Nearly four lakh pilgrims have so far paid obeisance at the cave shrine.
Pilgrims travelling from Jammu are ferried to Kashmir in escorted convoys under elaborate security arrangements.