Overview
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high‑level security review on Friday and ordered an ‘impregnable’ multi‑layer security grid using CAPFs, Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Army along the Yatra routes.
- Security forces are expanding technology use with tactical drones, expanded CCTV feeds, portable RCIED jammers, deep‑search metal detectors and X‑ray baggage systems for camps and transit points.
- CRPF Director General G P Singh carried out on‑ground reviews in Kashmir and directed proactive, intelligence‑led deployments and route‑sanitisation ahead of the pilgrimage.
- Officials have put in place QR/RFID registration and identity cards for local service providers and animals, set up veterinary and medical camps, and declared the Yatra corridors a no‑flying zone from July 1.
- Administrations are widening tracks, boosting ambulances, toilets and holding capacity, pre‑positioning NDRF/SDRF rescue assets, and ordering senior officers to remain at camp sites to manage higher expected turnout and weather‑driven movement.