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| Army told to upgrade and renovate surveillance system on LOC | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 8: Experts have suggested to the Defence Ministry to upgrade and renovate surveillance system on the LOC in Jammu and Kashmir so that measures were taken in hand well before militants attempt at infiltrating into the Indian Territory.
Official sources said that a team of Parliamentarians had visited some border areas not only in Jammu and Kashmir but in Punjab too where they had found the existing surveillance system consisting of floodlights and other gadgets having outlived their utility. They have found wires and floodlights having suffered major fault requiring immediate replacement.
Sources said that the Indian troops have been successful in foiling series of ingress bids because they were able to monitor the movement of militants with the help of sensors and the imaging machines which usually needed floodlights.
Besides this the Parliamentarians have suggested to raise protective bund which could act as a barrier against infiltration. They have found that Pakistan has, during the last seven years, constructed scores of additional border observation posts, barricades and bunkers across the LOC.
This called for immediate Indian response by building new bunkers and observation posts all along the LOC and on the 187-kms long International Border in the Jammu sector.
It has also found that large stretches of the LOC are manned by a small number of troops. In that case the parliamentarians have been told that about 1,000 soldiers have been manning over 60-km border stretch. They have suggested to the Govrnment to deploy additional companies of troops on he LOC and the IB so that agencies across the border were not able to push groups of militants into Jammu and Kashmir.
Experts too have suggested to the senior Army functionaries to deploy additional forces on the border following reports that nearly 700 to 800 militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons, have been brought on the launching pads across Kupwara,Karnah,Kern,Gurez,Poonch,Rajouri,R.S.Pora,Akhnoor an Samba sectors.
They have conveyed to the Government that next 40 days were crucial for the Indian troops as far as anti-infiltration drive was concerned because Pakistani agencies were trying to assist groups of militants in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir before the border routes were buried under snow from the middle of next month
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