Key Highlights
- He said that the relics are expected to arrive in Leh on April 28–29, with a grand ceremonial reception planned on May 1.
- The chief secretary said that the relics would be placed at Jivestal for public display for about 15 days, allowing devotees from across Ladakh to seek blessings.
- A review meeting of the constituted coordination committee would be held shortly and assured that adequate arrangements, including transportation facilities, would be made to ensure maximum participation from all districts, Kundra added.
- The Rinpoches of various monastries welcomed the initiative and offered suggestions such as strengthening security and crowd management, constituting task-oriented sub-committees, organising mass prayers and chanting by different Buddhist sects, ensuring multilingual information dissemination, screening films on Lord Buddha, and inviting ambassadors from Buddhist-majority countries and representatives of international Buddhist learning centres.
- Addressing the gathering, Gupta said that the idea of the holy exposition was inspired by his interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his visit to view the sacred Piprahwa Buddha relics in New Delhi.