There was a gathering of Shiva devotees on Falgun Shukla Ashtami at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi.  More than five lakh Shiva devotees attended Baba Darbar till late night.  Vishwa Bhushan Mishra, Chief Executive Officer of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust, said that on March 17, a new record of the highest daily number of visitors has been made.According to the data, 5 lakh 03 thousand 24 visitors got darshan of Mahadev.  Before the inauguration of the corridor, on normal days the number of devotees used to be around 20 to 30 thousand, whereas after the inauguration the number of devotees increased to 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh.