On Friday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level meeting over the preparedness for the 62-day-long Amarnath Yatra, which will begin on 1 July and continue till 31 August.
The meeting was attended by several officers, including Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Ajay Bhalla, the Union Home Secretary, Tapan Deka, the Intelligence Bureau chief, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GoC-in-C) of the Northern Command, Upendra Dwivedi, and SL Thaosen, the Director General of CRPF.
After the successful conduct of the G20 tourism working group meeting in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir administration shifted its focus on the arrangements for the upcoming Amarnath Yatra amid intelligence inputs of possible attempts by Pakistan-based terror outfits to disrupt the pilgrimage.