New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- A parliamentary panel on home affairs has recommended developing an integrated security and surveillance framework, incorporating comprehensive CCTV coverage, centralised monitoring facilities, regular vulnerability assessments and periodic security audits at all major tourist destinations in Jammu and Kashmir. The panel's suggestions come a year after 25 tourists and a pony operator were killed by three Pakistani terrorists in Pahalgam's Baisaran meadow on April 22, 2025, triggering a four-day armed conflict between India and Pakistan. The panel has further asked the government to prescribe and review clear inter-agency standard operating procedures (SOPs) before every peak tourist season to ensure a coordinated and timely response to any security-related incident. A delegation of department related standing committee on home affairs, led by Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, visited Gulmarg on May 13 and Sonmarg on May 14 to undertake an on-the-spot assessment of the security arrangements at major tourist destinations and to review the preparedness measures in place for ensuring the safety and convenience of tourists. "The committee appreciates the comprehensive security arrangements put in place by the Union Territory administration and the Jammu and Kashmir Police at Gulmarg and other major tourist and religious destinations...The committee, however, recommends that an integrated security and surveillance framework be developed for all major tourist destinations, incorporating comprehensive CCTV coverage, centralised monitoring facilities, regular vulnerability assessments and periodic security audits," the panel said in its 260th report, tabled in Parliament on Friday. "The committee further recommends that clear inter-agency standard operating procedures be prescribed and reviewed before every peak tourist season," the report states....