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Enhance ex-gratia of border residents at par with BSF soliders: Bajwa 10/28/2014 11:12:44 PM Early Times Report Suchetgarh, Oct 28: Former Rajya Sabha member and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Suchetgarh assembly segment, Trilok Singh Bajwa today demanded that ex-gratia for border residents who lost their lives in firing from across the border should be treated at par with the jawans of Border Security Force (BSF) and other forces. Addressing series of public meetings in border areas of Suchetgarh assembly segment, Bajwa said that jawans of BSF are protecting our borders by wearing uniform and the border residents are also doing the same job valiantly without wearing uniforms. "There should be no discrimination with men in uniforms and residents of border areas because both of them are doing the same job", Bajwa said and further demanded that government should bear expenditure of treatment for those border residents who have been injured in the firing/shelling from across the border. Bajwa rued that some border residents, injured in border firing, have lost their lives due to non available of proper treatment. He further said that some border firing injured have gone for advanced treatment outside the state on their own expenditure. While listing woes of the border inhabitants, Bajwa regretted that adequate attention was not paid to the problems being faced by people living on the borders. Bajwa further demanded that government should immediately identify the state land at safer place so as to allot five Marla plots to the border people. Furthermore, Bajwa also demanded that on spot recruitment rallies should also be started in the border areas to provide jobs to the unemployed youth of these areas. He further demanded that authorities should set up counseling centres at border areas to educate border youth about various schemes. Bajwa also demanded that benefits which are given to the residents of Line of Control (LoC) should be extended to the residents of International Border (IB) because residents of both the areas were facing same problems.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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