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The Centre has decided to summation the deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) from 581 companies successful 2025 to 670 companies this twelvemonth for the upcoming 57 days of Amarnath yatra.
The summation of 89 further CAPF companies came successful the backdrop of the panic onslaught connected tourists successful April 2025 successful Pahalgam, which is 1 of the yatra routes successful southbound Kashmir, too the Baltal way successful cardinal Kashmir. The CAPF unit volition antheral the pilgrimage way from Jammu’s introduction point, Lakhanpur, the stopovers successful Jammu and the cave shrine successful Kashmir.
For the archetypal clip aft the Pahalgam attack, the J&K constabulary carried retired inheritance checks of work providers who connection services similar palanquins and equine rides to pilgrims up to the cave shrine. Special individuality cards with QR codes person been issued to the work providers “to discourage mingling of miscreants among them”.
Police officials said J&K Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat directed the territory heads “to guarantee due arrangements for incoming units and their businesslike crushed deployment”.
Refining the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Amarnath yatra, DGP Prabhat called for “proactive strategies to antagonistic imaginable threats”. The constabulary serviceman besides instructed tract formations “to intensify efforts aimed astatine dismantling the panic ecosystem and strengthening country domination on the pilgrimage routes”.
Special anti-sabotage teams, backed by precocious surveillance systems, look detectors and real-time monitoring mechanisms, are being enactment successful spot for the upcoming yatra, officials said. The J&K Police person started “random inspections astatine susceptible areas and intensified patrolling to efficaciously code immoderate imaginable information concerns”.
