Union Home Secretary to review Kashmir security today
Srinagar, Nov 4: On a tightly scheduled one-day visit to Kashmir, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan will arrive in Srinagar at 11 am on Wednesday to review the security and winter preparedness in J&K.
Accompanied by a high-level security entourage, Mohan will preside over a wide-ranging meeting at J&K Police Headquarters here, focusing on counter-terrorism, infiltration control, rooting out Over Ground Worker (OGW) networks, and ensuring the robust functioning of winter-operations in J&K.
He is slated to depart for New Delhi at 6 pm.
Senior officers of the security establishment will brief Mohan about the prevailing security scenario in J&K.
The meeting would be attended by top central and local officials including Chief Secretary Atal Dullo; Home Secretary, J&K, Chandraker Bharti; Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Tapan Kumar Deka; Director, National Investigation Agency (NIA), Sadanand Vasant Date; Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat; Director General, Border Security Force (BSF), Daljit Singh Chaudhary; Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), G P Singh; Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Anshul Garg; Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vidhi Kumar Birdi, and other senior representatives of the Home Ministry, J&K administration, and central forces.
According to official sources, the agenda comprises several priority items, including terrorism and infiltration.
They said that with the winter season on the horizon and terrain becoming tougher for movement, focus will be on sealing infiltration routes, enhancing surveillance along the Line of Control (LoC) and transit corridors, and strengthening intelligence-sharing.
The officials said that the meeting will review ongoing operations targeting overground support networks that provide logistics, funding, and local support to terrorist entities. They said that given Kashmir’s harsh winter conditions, the discussion will examine readiness of security forces (road clearance, forward posts, accommodation, mobility), civil administration (power, heating, supplies), and contingency planning for emergencies in remote areas.
With representatives from IB, NIA, BSF, CRPF, and J&K Police present, the emphasis will be on joint operations, common threat-assessment frameworks, and real-time intelligence sharing, they said.
Officials said that the snow-bound terrain amplifies vulnerabilities and the forces will weigh in on communications, access roads, forward out-posts, extraction routes, and medical-evacuation readiness.
