New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The Centre has ordered the deployment of three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalions in the Jammu region as part of a rejig to strengthen the counter-terrorist security grid, official sources said on Thursday.

These units will take over from the Rashtriya Rifles (Army) units deployed in Udhampur and Kathua districts. The Army units will be reassigned new tasks, the sources said.

The deployment of the CRPF units in Jammu region is part of a new security strategy, where locations in the hinterland are proposed to be handed over to the forces under the Union home ministry, while the Army units will be utilised to bolster security along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China,...