New Delhi, May 30 -- The Centre has ordered deployment of a total 581 companies, comprising about 42,000 on-ground personnel, of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for the annual Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said on Thursday.
While 424 companies are being sent to the Union Territory (UT), the rest, including about 80 companies that moved to the UT during Operation Sindoor, will be "relocated" to secure the yatra route, the pilgrims and other areas, including Srinagar, they said. The Union home ministry has directed that these forces move "immediately" and take position in Jammu and Kashmir by the second week of June.
The Amarnath Yatra will begin on July 3 and end on August 9. The security deployment plan for...