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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Friday (June 12, 2026) chaired a high-level gathering to reappraisal the information and operational preparedness for the upcoming yearly Amarnath Yatra, officials said.
The yatra is scheduled to statesman connected July 3.
The gathering was attended by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha, Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi, and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director-General G.P. Singh, too different elder information and administrative officials.
The 57-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine successful the Himalayas requires a monolithic information deployment, with the Central and Union Territory agencies moving successful adjacent tandem.
Officials said the agencies are combining precocious surveillance technology, intelligence-led monitoring, and multi-agency coordination to guarantee a wholly unafraid situation for the devotees.
Pilgrims volition question done the accepted 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam way successful Anantnag territory and the shorter but steeper 14-km Baltal way successful Ganderbal district.
Earlier this week, Lieutenant Governor Sinha reviewed the preparations, directing departments and information agencies to guarantee creaseless arrangements covering infrastructure, security, healthcare, sanitation, connectivity and pilgrim services.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has besides deployed blase screening and anti-sabotage equipment.
These see portable RCIED jammers, heavy hunt metallic detectors, explosive and liquid explosive detectors, non-linear junction detectors (NLJDs), contraband busters, prodder conveyance hunt mirrors, optical fibrescopes, multi-type CCTV systems, XBIS, vehicle-mounted XBIS, multi-zone DFMDs (Fixed/multizone), HHMDs, hunt metallic detectors, and different specialised equipment, they added.
Police person besides launched the QR-based “Pahchan App”, designed to digitally verify workers and vendors operating on the yatra route.
Officials accidental the strategy volition assistance forestall unverified individuals from infiltrating the pilgrimage ecosystem portion improving accountability and assemblage management.
Tenant verification drives, inspections of lodgement centres and intelligence-gathering operations person besides been intensified.
The CRPF, which plays a pivotal relation successful securing the pilgrimage, has undertaken extended reviews of operational preparedness.
CRPF D-G Singh besides visited the Valley and took banal of information arrangements on the way to Baltal, directing commanders to follow proactive measures.
He reviewed information and logistical arrangements on the yatra way up to the Baltal basal campy and emphasised the value of maintaining a robust information grid done adjacent coordination among each the stakeholders.
Mr. Singh said inter-agency coordination indispensable beryllium strengthened to guarantee a harmless and incident-free pilgrimage.
