The pilgrims comprising 2,699 men, 929 women, 64 children and 494 'sadhus' left in a cavalcade of 127 vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 0500 hours.
With today's batch, as many as 61,043 pilgrims have left Jammu for their onward journey to the cave shrine of Amarnath.