Vaishno Devi Pilgrimage Sees 27% Drop in 2025

The number of people visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu and Kashmir dropped a lot in 2025.

Only about 68.85 lakh people visited by the end of December, which is much less than the 94.84 lakh people who visited in 2024.

This happened because of some bad things that happened during the year.

In April, there was a terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.

Then, in May, there was a big operation against terrorists that made the border area tense.

In August, a landslide caused by heavy rain killed 35 people and closed the temple for three weeks.

Even though the temple authorities worked hard to keep people safe and improve the infrastructure, these events made fewer people visit the temple this year.

The most people visited in April, and the fewest visited in September when there was a lot of rain and flooding.