Home Ministry To Hold High-Level Meet On Jammu And Kashmir Today

The meeting will be chaired by newly-appointed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and attended by the secretaries of the Central government. The Union Home Ministry will hold a high-level meeting on Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, said a Ministry source.

The meeting will be chaired by newly-appointed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and attended by the secretaries of the Central government, IANS reported. This will be Bhalla’s first formal meeting on J&K, since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, and will discuss the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, that bifurcated the state into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir with an Assembly and Ladakh without one. The meeting will also be attended by Additional Secretary (J&K, Division) Gyanesh Kumar, whose department deals with matters of policy and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.