Srinagar: The Director General of J&K Police Dilbag Singh on Tuesday chaired a high level meeting of senior officers from Police, Civil Administration, and CAPFs to review the security arrangements and deployment of personnel for the forthcoming Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra.
The annual Amarnath Yatra will be held from June 30 to August 11, 2022 after being called off for two years due to the Covid pandemic.
The DGP, while speaking on the occasion directed the placing of all possible security arrangements at the Base Camps and strengthening the communication network.
He stressed for effective and planned regulation of traffic management on national highway and other roads, parking of vehicles and deployment of forces on both the yatra routes of Pahalgam and Baltal etc.
The DGP emphasized upon the officers to make adequate use of modern security gadgets/technology including CCTVs, drones to further augment the security at important Yatra locations and the route.
He stressed for keeping special focus on sensitive locations and base camps including parking places. He directed deployment of quick response teams to provide immediate assistance to the pilgrims as and when required.
Stressing for coordination mechanisms and communication systems among the counterparts of all the stakeholders of Army, CAPFs, Police and Civil administration, the DGP said that close coordination is must for better results.
He directed that effective mechanisms should be put in place for peaceful conduct of the Yatra.
The DGP instructed the officers to regularly inspect the security and other necessary arrangements put in place for Amarnath Ji Yatra pilgrims.
The DGP emphasized that local and highway security grids need to be kept fully geared up at all levels and joint efforts of all security forces must continue to smoothly conduct the pilgrimage of SANJY. He also reviewed the additional security measures being taken on the National Highway.
The DGP said that adequate manpower has been made available to the jurisdictional officers and reiterated that the identified routes of travel and movement, Do’s and Don’ts for the Yatris, helpline numbers should be made public and be circulated through every possible medium so that Yatris could take note and ask for any assistance effortlessly.
The officers representing different forces apprised the DGP regarding the arrangements with regard to security and deployment of manpower in their respective areas of jurisdiction to ensure peaceful Yatra and keep the routes leading to the Holy Cave hassle free and safe for pilgrims.
The meeting which was held at Police Control Room, Srinagar was attended by ADG CRPF, J&K Zone, Daljit Singh Chawdhary, Spl DG CID, J&K R.R Swain, ADGP Jammu Zone Mukesh Singh, IGP CRPF (Ops) Sector Kashmir, M S Bhatia, IGP CRPF Srinagar, Charu Sinha, IGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, IGP Traffic J&K, Vikramjit Singh, DIG Central Kashmir Sujit Kumar, DIG South Kashmir, Abdul Jabbar, DIG SSB SHQ, (Spl Ops) Kashmir, Memen Basant Kumar, DIG ITBP Kashmir, S.K Yadaw, senior officers from Civil Administration.