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Jammu, June 22: As the insurgency picks up with summer heat and more ultras step in from the Line of Control, the security agencies have a raised an alarm bell.
Concerned over the latest security development in Jammu and Kashmir and getting the first had information from the Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta who was in the summer capital last wee, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil is visiting Srinagar the following week, reports said.
Patil, who will be accompanied by some of the senior officials of the ministry, would meet officials from the Army, Police, Intelligence agencies and local heads of para-military forces to chalk out the future strategy for countering the influx from across the border, official sources said here.
The visit comes at a time when infiltration figures for May and June show a considerable increase over the corresponding period last year.
The Army, during its recent meeting with the Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, had said that the border fence in North Kashmir will be repaired by end of this month as the area was being regularly used by militants to sneak into Indian territory.
Patil's day-long visit comes ahead of the Indo-Pak Home Secretary level talks early next month during which the issue is likely to figure prominently.
Gupta had himself undertaken a two-day visit to the state earlier this month during which he had announced setting up a committee for rehabilitation of widows and orphans of militants killed in encounter with security forces.
Patil, during his visit to the Valley, will review decisions taken at the third Round Table Conference held here in April this year.
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