Border residents in Kashmir to get 5,390 bunkers

The project will create safe accommodation for 54,000 people.

By: PTI | Jammu | Published: January 6, 2018 5:37 pm

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Women come out as they clean an underground bunker in Balkote URI near the Line of Control, on June 4, 2017 in Kashmir. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi/Files)

The government will provide safe accommodation to 54,000 border residents facing the brunt of intermittent firing and shelling by Pakistan troops round the year in Rajouri district with the construction of over 5,300 individual and community bunkers. Apart from 100 bunkers being constructed, the government has given approval for 4,918 individual bunkers and 372 community bunkers, District Development Commissioner Rajouri Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said.