"This being election year, militant outfits might try to sneak in more numbers by taking advantage of broken fencing along the Line of Control due to heavy snowfall last winter," Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor told reporters in Srinagar.
He said the security forces would provide "environmental security" to ensure peaceful polling and create an atmosphere so that people can exercise their franchise.
There was a marked improvement in the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir though the level of infiltration over the past couple of years has remained more or less the same, Kapoor said.
He said "an assessment for this year can be made only after the snow starts melting. Once the passes open, we can better gauge the situation".
As per available official figures, 343 militants infiltrated into the state in 2006 and 311 last year.
Fencing along the LOC had been damaged at some places due to heavy snowfall in the winter which "will take some time to repair; may be, by the end of this month or the first week of June", the Army chief said.
He said the militants might take advantage of these "loop-holes but the Army is up to the task of foiling their designs as a multi-tier mechanism to check infiltration is in place".
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