India, May 30 -- To smoothly conduct the 57-day-long annual Amarnath pilgrimage beginning July 3, over one lakh security personnel will be deployed on the ground to strengthen the security grid across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union Home Ministry has already given its nod to deploy at least 670 companies of Central Paramilitary forces on the yatra duty.

This is the highest number of companies that are being deployed for the pilgrimage as the yatra this year is lasting nearly two months. During 2025, around 580 companies were deployed for the yatra duty.

The MHA approved the deployment plan after holding a series of security review meetings with the top brass of the Jammu and Kashmir police and other heads of the sec...