Srinagar, Jun 11<\/p>\n
In the run-up to the annual Amarnath Yatra Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on Friday.<\/p>\n
Sources said that Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will attend the meeting along with top officials, including the Director General of Police, the Chief Secretary, and senior officers from the Army and Police, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticipants will brief the Union Home Minister about the arrangements that have been put in place for the smooth conduct of the annual pilgrimage,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The meeting comes days before the commencement of the holy pilgrimage, which draws thousands of devotees to the Himalayan cave shrine each year and involves elaborate security arrangements across multiple districts in J&K.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe review will focus on assessing the overall security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, with particular emphasis on preparedness for the yatra,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n
They said that the meeting is likely to discuss deployment of security forces, intelligence coordination, surveillance mechanisms, and contingency planning to deal with any potential threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Home Minister is likely to take stock of the ground situation and review measures put in place to ensure a smooth and incident-free conduct of the annual yatra. Inputs from intelligence agencies and field-level assessments are also expected to be part of the discussions,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n
LG Sinha on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting in Srinagar to review preparations for the forthcoming Amarnath Yatra.<\/p>\n
He directed all departments to ensure timely completion of arrangements including infrastructure, healthcare, sanitation, connectivity, and other pilgrim centric services. \u201cAmarnath Yatra will begin on July 3 and conclude on August 28. Our collective goal is to ensure a safe, seamless, and spiritually fulfilling pilgrimage for every devotee of Baba Barfani,\u201d the LG said.<\/p>\n
Emphasising seamless coordination, proactive planning, and strict monitoring, the LG said that this sacred pilgrimage is a national event.<\/p>\n
He instructed all stakeholders to work with utmost dedication and maintain the highest standards of efficiency and safety.<\/p>\n
After chairing the meeting LG Sinha posted on X: \u201cToday, chaired a high-level review meeting on preparations for\u00a0 Amarnath Ji Yatra 2026 & directed all departments and security agencies to ensure timely completion of arrangements from infrastructure and security to healthcare, sanitation, connectivity, and pilgrim services.\u00a0 Amarnath Ji Yatra will begin on July 3 and conclude on August 28. Our collective goal is to ensure a safe, seamless, and spiritually fulfilling pilgrimage for every devotee of Baba Barfani.\u201d KNO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Srinagar, Jun 11 In the run-up to the annual Amarnath Yatra Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on Friday. Sources said that Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will attend the meeting along with top officials, including the Director General of Police, the Chief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22303,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions\/22303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}