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Commanding Officer Colonel Ravindranath of 15th Battalion J&K Rifles of Jack Group and all ranks did the service of opening the way to the holy shrine Hemkund Sahib with great devotion, dedication, and love from 1991 to 1993, which was…
Ghangaria Village is 13 km (trek) from Govindghat (Uttarakhand). (3 km is Valley of Flowers from Ghangaria Village on the right-hand side. And further, a straight continuing Govindghat Ghangaria trek for another 6 km will take you to Hemkund Sahib)…
Valley of Flowers is 3 km from Ghangaria Village. To reach Ghangaria, you have to trek 13 km from Govindghat. Hemkund Sahib is 6 km from Ghangaria Village.
The jawan of the 15th Battalion Jammu and Kashmir Rifles of Jack Group, 13753845 H Rifleman Shamsher Singh was martyred on 28 May 1992 while doing Reiki on the way to Hemkund Sahib – the holy shrine.