Jammu: Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat on Friday visited Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district and reviewed the security arrangements ahead of the Amarnath Yatra beginning July 3.
The 38-day-long yatra is scheduled to start on July 3 from the twin routes — the traditional 48-kilometre Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the shorter but steeper 14-kilometre Baltal route in Ganderbal district — leading to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath.
The first batch of pilgrims will leave for Kashmir from the Jammu-based Bhagwati Nagar base camp a day before the start of the yatra.
The DGP, along with Jammu Zone IGP Bhim Sen Tuti and other senior officers, visited the Reception Centre at Lakhanpur, the entry point to Jammu and Kashmir, and reviewed the security and administrative arrangements on the ground ahead of the yatra, the officials said.
He was briefed about the security setup by the officers on the ground, they said.
The DGP also interacted with all the nodal officers concerned with the yatra.
Meanwhile, administration has made arrangements to house over 50,000 pilgrims in various lodgement centres across the Jammu region for their comfortable pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the South Kashmir Himalayas beginning July 3, officials said.
The 38-day-long Amarnath Yatra is scheduled to start on July 3 from the twin routes — the traditional 48-kilometre Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the shorter but steeper 14-kilometre Baltal route in Ganderbal district — leading to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine. The first batch of pilgrims will leave for Kashmir from the Jammu-based Bhagwati Nagar base camp a day before the start of the Yatra.
“Arrangements have been made to provide boarding and lodging facilities for over 50,000 people at various lodgement centres across the Jammu region, from Lakhanpur to Banihal. A total of 106 lodgement centres have been set up for the purpose,” Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar told reporters here.
These arrangements have been made by the district administrations of Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Udhampur and Ramban besides the police wings, he said.
DGP reviews security arrangements for Yatra in Kathua
