Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 14: The Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh 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 at the Police Control Room here today.
The meeting was attended by ADG CRPF, J&K Zone Daljit Singh Chawdhary, Special DG CID, J&K RR Swain, ADGP Jammu Zone Mukesh Singh, IGP CRPF (Ops) Sector Kashmir, MS 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) KashmirShri Memen Basant Kumar, DIG ITBP Kashmir, SK Yadaw and senior officers from Civil Administration.
The DGP while speaking on the occasion directed for placing all possible security arrangements of 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 en 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.
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.
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