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Rain slows down border fencing

By Our Staff Reporter

RS PURA, (JAMMU), AUG. 25. The rainy season this year has slowed down the fencing operations along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir.

The operations, launched in January 2001 by the Border Security Force (BSF) to curb infiltration, have covered around 85 km of the 198-km stretch of the international border in spite of intermittent firing from across the border.

However, transport of raw material becomes difficult as many parts along the international border still have no metallic roads and get marshy during the rainy season.

The Inspector-General, BSF (Jammu frontier), Dilip Trividi, told The Hindu: "Our main concern is transportation of raw material. A proper road network will help us speed up the movement of raw material throughout the year."

The operations so far have plugged the porous routes along the Basantar river but a large part of the Abdulliah corridor remains to be sealed. A similar situation obtains at the Kanachuk sector which witnessed a spurt in infiltration recently.

What worries the authorities is the continuing influx of Bangladesh nationals to the border areas going unchecked. These people attempt to illegally cross over to Pakistan.

The Army chief, N.C. Vij, who visited the forward areas along the Line of Control recently, inspected the pockets presently being fenced.

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