SRINAGAR, (PTK): The central government has sanctioned additional 400 individual bunkers for Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Rajouri districts with 200 additional bunkers for each district Newsx reported.
The report further noted that the bunkers would get built in the next month as per the prescribed specifications. The decision comes at a time when tensions between India and Pakistan have been escalating following India launched pre-emptive and non-military air strikes on Pakistan-based terror camps in Balakot on February 26, 2019.
Ever since the air strikes, the villages of Poonch and Rajouri have been facing the cross-border shelling, which has been increased in the last couple of days.
In the past few days, Pakistan troops have violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district for multiple times.
The government has directed the authorities to ensure that the bunkers will be constructed as soon as possible. The funds will be provided through the Rural Development Department to the District Collectors. (PTK)
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