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| Measures for keeping troops warmers on frontiers | | | Early times report
Jammu, Dec 20: Additional quota of kerosene Bukhari have been provided to the Jawans and officers of the Army for keeping the border guards warm in the current spell of chill and rain. The coal Bukharis have been replaced by kerosene Bukharis on the entire LoC and the 187 km long International Border in the Jammu sector. A senior Army officer said that "we have replaced coal Bukharis by Kerosene Bukharis to prevent soldiers from falling ill on account of pollution."
He said "we have to keep our border guards fit and fine so that they maintain round the clock vigil on the LoC."
In reply to a question the officer said "despite growing tension between Delhi and Islamabad the entire border continued to remain quiet." The guns are silent on both sides of the border; he said adding that during the last one month the infiltration rate had touched zero level.
He said that "we have instructed the border guards not to lower their guard despite lull on the LoC." He said as a result of marked drop in the rate of infiltration the level of militancy related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir had declined drastically.
Explaining it the officer said that during the current year not more than 600 incidents of militancy related incidents had taken place when during the election year of 1996 there were over 5,000 such incidents and in 2002 election there were over 3,000 militancy related incidents.
He said drop in the rate of infiltration had resulted in the drop in man and machine power of the militants and this factor had facilitated incident free election in the state so far. |
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