As many as 3,31,352 pilgrims have paid obeisance at the shrine till yesterday during this year's pilgrimage.
The batch of 175 men, 59 women and one child left in a motorcade of five vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp here at 4:35 AM, a police official said.
Amid tight security arrangements provided by CRPF, the convoy has already crossed Kud in Udhampur district on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, he said.
The pilgrims would reach the twin base camps at Pahalgam and Baltal by this evening, he added.