The pilgrims comprising 3,010 men, 1154 women, 155 children and 151 'sadhus' left in a cavalcade of 148 vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 0510 hours for Amarnath, official said.
The convoy has already crossed Batote on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway towards base camps in Pahalgam in Kashmir Valley.
With today's batch, as many as 32,242 pilgrims have left Jammu for their onward journey to the shrine.