Overview
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security review on Friday that formalised a multi-layered security doctrine using drones, CCTV, unified control rooms and other modern surveillance to protect the 57-day pilgrimage.
- The review ordered QR-code registration for local service providers and animals and the launch of digital verification tools to tighten access control and speed ID checks at transit camps and base camps.
- CRPF Director General G P Singh has led operational readiness inspections and the CRPF component is expected to be one of the largest in recent years with roughly 50,000 personnel planned for deployment alongside J&K Police and other central forces.
- Civil authorities have accelerated pilgrim welfare work, directing track widening, more ambulances, extra toilets, medical posts with oxygen and rescue teams, and set a June 25 deadline for key route readiness while enforcing a No Flying Zone from July 1.
- The combined plan links tighter counter‑militancy measures, round‑the‑clock senior‑officer presence at camps and weather‑dependent batch movements, which could reduce delays but will reshape how pilgrims, porters and pony operators are vetted and managed this year.