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Work with states for convenient senior-citizen pilgrimages (Teerth Yatra)

Bharatiya Janata Party · Lok Sabha General Election 2024

Last updated 9 Jul 2026

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Original manifesto wording

“We will work with state governments to ensure convenient facilities for senior citizens to undertake sacred pilgrimages across the country.”

From the Bharatiya Janata Party manifestoView Manifesto

Our Assessment

The promise was to work with state governments to ensure convenient pilgrimage facilities for senior citizens. Several state-level pilgrimage schemes exist, and some pre-date the 2024 manifesto, but those do not by themselves prove a central-state coordination mechanism under this Lok Sabha promise. I found general central tourism and pilgrimage-infrastructure activity, including PRASHAD and Bharat Gaurav trains, but not a senior-citizen-specific central framework, MoU, guideline, budget line or delivery report coordinating with states. Under the scheme-name rule, state-run programmes cannot be credited unless there is evidence of central coordination matching the pledge. The promise therefore remains pending. Budget: no direct allocation, sanction or utilisation evidence for a central senior-citizen Teerth Yatra coordination programme was found.