Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Sunday said that there was no threat to Amarnath Yatra and pilgrimage is going on smoothly.
The Jammu and Kashmir police chief said that when yatracommenced there were apprehensions. “But everything is going on smoothly andeverybody including the people are doing their bit to make the pilgrimagesuccessful,” he said adding that number of pilgrims is swelling with eachpassing day. “This is a good sign,” he added.
This year, security arrangements for the annual AmarnathYatra have been scaled up and the authorities have issued a ‘barcode’-enabledauthority slip to pilgrims to keep a track of the actual number of peopletravelling to and from the cave shrine.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)—tasked as theprimary force to secure the pilgrimage— has deployed an enhanced number ofupgraded electromagnetic chips or RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags onvehicles that transport pilgrims and other civilians associated with the Yatra.
Around 40,000 CRPF men and J&K police personnel havebeen deployed to secure the 46-day Yatra that started on 1 July and willconclude on 15 August.
Official sources said that over two lakh pilgrims have sofar visited the cave shrine.