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| Anti-ingress grid upgraded to ensure incident free polling | | | Though the Army functionaries have been told to concentrate on foiling each and every infiltration bids from across the LOC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir,they have been suggested to keep some companies of troops ready for meeting any eventuality during the ongoing pre-poll campaign and during polling days.Although the top Army functionaries have not referred to the suggestion from the Government and the Election Commission inside reports do indicate that troops may be put on the alert days before polling days in various sensitive areas of the state.Hitherto,the Army authorities have been paying repeated visits to various stretches and pockets of the LOC and the top BSF officers have visited various segments of the IB in the Jammu sector to ensure that the border management grid was further strengthened to check ingress of militants.And in this connection the GOC 15 Corps, Lt General Gurmit Singh, has said that Army is ready to face any challenge during elections while situation on the LOC and in hinterland is under control.
Gen Singh has stated that troops were ready to face or meet any eventuality and their top assignment was to check infiltration of militants from across the LOC and the IB.
In order to ensure that the level of ingress touched zero various measures have been initiated for promoting excellent coordination among different security agencies in hinterland.In addition to this,efforts were on to build effective counter-infiltration grid on the LOC.Measures similar to it were being initiated by the BSF on the IB which had proved porous during the last one year because of two major terrorist strikes in Kathua and Samba districts. Various gadgets have been installed on the LOC and the IB for monitoring the movement of militants.This has been done after the Army authorities found that these gadgets had helped troops in foiling over 80 per cent ingress bids.Besides these measures Army and BSF engineers have carried out thorough inspection of the border fence and have repaired fence that had got snapped either by heavy snow or by militants who had used plastic scissors and other equipment for snapping barbed wire to make way for infiltration.Both men of the BSF and the Army,guarding the IB and the LOC respectively,have been told to constitute more teams for carrying out round the clock patrolling on the border because militants have been invariably taking advantage of darkness during nights for sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir.
The need for upgrading the counter infiltration grid has risen from reports indicating that groups of militants had been brought on the launch pads across the LOC and the IB for crossing into Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose of disrupting the ensuing Lok Sabha poll process.Inputs from various intelligence agencies have indicated that once the state had added militant man power chances for incidents of violence to shoot become brighter.
And any hike in the level of violence may created added scare which was bound to prevent voters from walking to the polling booths.
If that happened Kashmiri separatists would have a chance to evoke full response to their call for poll boycott. Infact militants continue to operate within the Valley and in some hilly areas of the Jammu region and reports indicate that they too are framing their strategy for triggering violence which could "wreck" polling thereby allowing a chance to separatists to demand holding of a plebiscite after majority of people demonstrated that they no longer treat elections as substitute for a plebiscite.Hence the Government has taken in hand necessary measures for foiling such plans of separatists and militants. |
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