This will be Narendra Modi's first visit to J&K since he became the prime minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Kashmir Valley today amid a shutdown called by separatists and warnings by Muslim groups not to create a separate enclave for Kashmiri Pandits.
PM Modi will inaugurate a 240 MW hydro-power in the border town of Uri in Baramulla district.
Before that he will fly to Jammu to open a 25-km rail link between Katra and Udhampur, providing a direct link to the Mata Vaishno Devi temple with the rest of the country.
This will be Mr Modi's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir since he became the prime minister on May 26 at the head of a government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which bitterly opposes any special status for Kashmir.
On Thursday, the Majlis Itihad-e-Milat, a group of religious groups, warned the central government against moves to create separate settlements for migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley.
Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah, have all called for a shutdown.
PM Modi's visit also comes amid calls by some in the BJP to scrap article 370 of the Indian constitution that gives special status to the state.
Chief Minister Abdullah had said on Tuesday that the Kashmir problem cannot be resolved through economic packages.
He cautioned those trying to rake up a controversy over article 370.
"I have repeatedly highlighted that Jammu and Kashmir cannot be equated with other states of India.
"We cannot be browbeaten by money and muscle power. We have withstood all challenges in the past and will do it again in the future," Mr Abdullah said.