Let me reduce this debate to one word.
Demography.
Now it is an open secret why the alleged Khathua Rape case was prompted by Mehbooba Mufti after a few weeks. We all know who were the people who amplified it and what Mehbooba did to the whole district.
It was a precursor or I call it softening the demography, exploiting faultlines and creating sympathetic local pockets to assist infiltration. Most likely Modi was informed and then the alliance was broken.
Now the same districts are lit.
Coming back to Demography. The security and political establishment must not rush to give the power back to old political structures.
There must be a comprehensive approach to strengthen the first villages on the border with a 100% Hindu population. All the focus and money spent should be on these villages making them logistically accessible, fortified and having professional security apparatus attached.
Your traditional border grid can not look after the whole border.
I will further go on to say that let these villages be the pilot projects which can be then replicated on other sensitive borders.
Please wake up and don't get dissuaded by Islamic ethnicities who may appear to be patriotic. At least have a few villages to see how it works. Later on, more inward layers can be added to predominate Hindu majority villages with strong networking built to assist military operations and logistics.
There will be many pots who'll say that those villages will become the main targets. 1. The whole border is already the target. Ceasefire violations will be replicated and local tactical action rather with better reaction time will be actuated If the focus on border villages is given with military logistics and tactics POV.