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Border areas wear deserted look as Pak continues unprovoked firing 6 villages, 480 families take refuge in Govt buildings; BJP MLA yet to meet camp dwellers 8/24/2014 11:24:30 PM Bivek Mathur Jammu, Aug 24: "Kai kulle bane te kai kulle tutti gaye, menu taan sattar saal ho gaye vyah karke ethe aaye nu, duniya badal chuki e par border te saddi takdeeran ni badliyan puttra (Several houses were constructed and many of them have got crumbled in border firings many a times. I am witnessing this for the last 70 years since I came to this village after getting married. Situations have changed all over the world but our fate and borders have remained unchanged, my son)", said Sarfo Devi, a nonagenarian, forced to live in migrant camps of Rangpur due to border tension in R S Pura area of Jammu. The unprovoked firing from the other side of the border (Pakistan) has left over 180 families and 800 members, mostly women, children and ex-servicemen of Korotana Khurd village and Korotana Nai Basti village with no other option than to migrate to a nearby Girls Higher Secondary School at Rangpur. There are about 117 families of Bidhipur Pattan village with over 600 members living in Boys Higher Secondary School Rangpur and 180 families with 1000 members of three other border districts living in ITI College Nawan Shehar and RS Pura Higher Secondary School. Lashmi Devi of Korotana Khurd village, while sharing the experience of the dreadful night when she along with 179 other families were forced to quit their properties and livestock due to shelling and unprovoked firing, told Early Times that the cattle are abandoned for the last three days and are being fed up during the day hours as the Pak Rangers resort to unprovoked firing in the night hours from 1:00 am to 6:00 am. Life has become miserable in the border areas of Jammu which wear a deserted look. Naib Sarpanch of the village Korotana Khurd, Des Raj, representing these 180 families living in Rangpur camps, however, expressed satisfaction with the services being offered in the camps and the amount with which the villagers are being compensated by the ruling government but was unhappy with the local MLA of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) from Suchetgarh constituency, Sham Choudhary who, according to him has not visited the camp dwellers till now when other leaders of different political parties including Bhim Singh of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), Trilok Singh Bajwa of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Taranjeet Singh Tony of National Conference have visited the migrant camps.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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