Shah said this while chairing a high-level meeting to take stock of the preparations for the pilgrimage with top officials of the central government, Army and the J&K administration.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the government’s priority is to ensure the comfort of the Amarnath pilgrims and directed officials to make adequate security arrangements along the entire route in J&K.
Shah said this while chairing a high-level meeting to take stock of the preparations for the pilgrimage with top officials of the central government, Army and the J&K administration.
The meeting was attended by J&K Lt-Governor Manoj Sinha, the Army’s Northern Command chief Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, among others.
The 62-day-long annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine, located at a height of 3,880 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas, will begin on July 1 and continue till August 31.
“At the meeting, it was apprised that all the pilgrims will be given RFID cards so that their real-time location can be traced and everyone will be given Rs 5 lakh insurance cover. There will be insurance cover of Rs 50,000 for each animal carrying pilgrims,” it stated.