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| Citing security reasons, admin serves eviction notice to Kathua border residents | | People set to lose agricultural land, livelihood | | Harpreet Singh Sethi
Early Times Report
Kathua, Dec 4: In the coming days hundreds of villages situated along the India and Pakistan border in Kathua district will present a deserted look as government has asked the people to vacate their homes.
Sources said that the denizens been asked to move to some safer places due to security reasons.
Earlier residents putting up in frontier areas used to migrate to safer places due to skirmishes on the border but this time administration has asked them to move out.
The people living close to border are known as second line of defence and they have played very significant roles during the wars between India and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971 and this fact has been accepted by all the governments from time to time.
It is pertinent to mention here that since the division of India and Pakistan thousands of people have been undertaking agricultural activities on135 km chunk of government land right from Pahadpur in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district to Arnia in Jammu, who now fear that they may lose their land. Border dwellers have been served the notices in this regard by the administration to vacate the land. “If the government goes ahead with its eviction plan we will lose our livelihood,” residents said.
Senior vice-president of Border Union Bharat Bhushan while talking to Early Times said, “How can border people live in areas when they will have no land left for agricultural activities which is the main profession of the community.”
It’s in place to mention here that earlier border people had to migrate to different areas due to conflict or unprovoked and indiscriminate firing from across the border but keeping in view their contribution during skirmishes the Central Government spent millions of rupees on the construction of concrete bunkers along international borders and Line of Control across J&K for their safety and security. |
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