Jammu, June 30: As many as 50 companies of Central Reserve Police Force have been deployed along 300 kilometer long Srinagar-Jammu Highway to maintain vigil during 55 day long Amarnath Yatra, sources said  here today.
 The CRPF started hectic exercise by sanitizing the vulnerable stretches along the road with the help of Sniffer dogs, ahead of the first batch of pilgrims which left the Jammu base camp at Bhagwati Nagar this morning.
 Keeping in view the sensitive situation in valley, official sources said the forces had been kept on high alert all along the highway for safe and smooth conduct of Amarnath Yatra.
 For this purpose, sources said 50 companies of CRPF had been deployed and the Army had set up 97 area domination posts in and around the cave shrine in Lidder valley, Pahalgam and along the route to Udhampur, Ramban and Islamabad districts.
 If sources are to be believed, the troopers of BSF would keep vigil on twin routes of Pahalgam and Baltal of the north and south Kashmir and joint contingents of CRPF and police would guard the base and transit camps falling on these routes. Sources said around 3,000 BSF troopers had been airlifted to Kashmir for the Yatra duty.
 “Fourteen medical camps have been set up along north Kashmir route and 11 on the south Kashmir route while twenty-one ambulances will remain available round the clock to meet any emergency,” official sources said.

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