Jammu and Kashmir government-run Shri Amarnath Shrine Board is going all out to invite prominent heads of Hindu religious bodies across the country for participation in this year’s proposed pilgrimage, which could be the first yatra after the 2019 abrogation of Article 370.

The board chief executive officer Nitishwar Kumar, who is also principal secretary to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, personally took the letters on Tuesday to Haridwar to invite two prominent religious heads for the upcoming pilgrimage.

The 56-day Amarnath Yatra is scheduled to start through the twin routes of Pahalgam and Baltal on June 28. The registration of pilgrims is beginning on Thursday.

An official source said the decision to invite top seers across the country has no precedent “for as long as I can remember”.