rudraprayagchamoli even though the state government has set a daily cap on char dham pilgrims and made registration mandatory for the yatra a toi spot check at badrinath and kedarnath revealed that registrations are not being checked strictly on the route to the shrine towns posing a question mark on how the government is regulating the pilgrim numbersalso despite the spate of pilgrim deaths since the yatra started screening of pilgrims over 50 or stringent health check ups are missing this reporter undertook the kedarnath trek route earlier this week and did not spot any place where pilgrims were being screened or turned away after being found medicallyunfitthe claims of the pilgrim numbers being regulated also seemed questionable given the footfall at the temple towns a volunteer at the offline registration centre at kedarnath said that they were issuing 300400 registrations per day we have been issuing the same number of tokens ever since the yatra began on may 6 that hasnt changed despite the mandatory registration he saidthe line for the token itself can go up to a kilometre said locals and that for darshan is even longer post sundown even the token system fails same situation was observed in badrinath where registrations were checked randomly people make all sorts of excuses cite network issues when we ask them to produce the registrations the crowd has been the same for the past three weeks this checking should be done before they enter the town it becomes difficult to send people away once they are midway in the darshan line said a cop manning the exit of badrinath templescouts outside the badri temple are even pushing people to bypass the long darshan line by asking pilgrims to state false health issues and then use porters who take them around the temple for a fee of rs 500rs 1000some pilgrims were found to be not even aware of the registration but had still reached the temple towns as far as medical checkups were concerned a 66yearold tourist on the kedarnath and badrinath route said that while their vehicle was stopped at fourfive police check posts nowhere was a health check up mentioned or done the mandatory checks are being done sporadically if at all however officials insist that they are being donewe have health check ups happening at rudraprayag and sonprayag a major point just before the kedarnath trek begins from gaurikund our personnel move from phatta there everyday some cases might get missed due to odd hours of the day but check ups are happening regularly alleged bk shukla chief medical officer rudraprayag though no visible health check up post was seen at these pointshealth officials also said that in case the check ups are being missed the local police are liable as they are the ones in charge of stopping the vehicles we are carrying out checks at pandukeshwar and gauchar for the badrinath shrine said cmo chamoli shiv kuriyal though a spot check did not confirm this elderly