During Manimahesh Yatra, pilgrims gets Free Langar (Food) Facility provided by Self Help Organisations.
Every Year various applications from Self Help Organizations (Sewaks) gets received by Additional District Magistrate(ADM), Bharmour to provide Langar (Food) facility to devotees during the Manimahesh Yatra.
A meeting of representatives of Self Help organizations that applied for the Langar Facility is condtucted by ADM. Entire terms and conditions for Langar Facility gets provided to the organizations that applied for it. The organization will have to deposit a security fee of about Rs. 5000 to run a Langar, which will be refundable. Apart from that the Organisation will have to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene in the area apart from constructing a toilet near the facility. The security amount of those organization will be forfeited that are found guilty of violating these terms and conditions.
These Organizations hardly gets allowed to run Langar near the Holy Manimahesh lake. Last Year in 2015, 56 Self Help organizations gets permited for Langar Sewa during the holy yatra. These Self Help organizations are specially from Pathankot, Mukerian, Patiala, Amritsar, Muktsar etc.