Home Ministry to conduct final security review for Amarnath Yatra tomorrow

Jammu Kashmir | The Union Home Ministry is likely to conduct a final security review of the upcoming Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir with all stakeholders here on Tuesday. Official sources gave this information. Sources said the meeting will be held at the Ministry of Home Affairs in North Block and will be chaired by Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla.

He informed that the chiefs of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) such as Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and senior officials from intelligence, army, Jammu and Kashmir administration and Amarnath Shrine Board Officials are likely to attend the meeting.

The 62-day annual pilgrimage is likely to begin on July 1 and continue till August 31. Sources said that this time ITBP has been assigned the task of guarding the cave temple and CRPF will be deployed at other places. The country’s premier internal security force has been asked to guard the yatra route in the Kashmir Valley as several columns of CRPF have been deployed in violence-hit Manipur and for panchayat elections in West Bengal, officials said.