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| Patriots get less reward than militants: Mere Rs 5,100 awarded for detecting secret cross-border tunnel | | CS to take access of tunnel today | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Aug 31: Reaction started pouring in from different corners after Government presented a meager award of Rs 5100 to a villager who informed security forces about underground tunnel in border area of Samba. The issue perhaps may play a damp squib during the proposed visit of Chief Secretary Madhav Lal who is visiting to Samba tomorrow.
Sources said the high profiled cavalcade of Chief Secretary will be apprised with the issue and resentment among locals during his visit to border village to asses the situation.
Sources in Samba said that resentment started pouring in after the villager who gave the tip-off to Army about an underground tunnel dug from Pakistan along the International Border in Samba sector was awarded peanuts i.e. Rs 5,100 cash and citation by the Jammu and Kashmir Government.
Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Pradeep Gupta presented the cash award, a citation and a memento to Sukhdev Singh, a resident of Chachwal village who was the first to discover the 550-metre-long tunnel last month sensing it as a threat to the national security reported, the matter to the security forces deployed in the border area.
While the Government has awarded the villager that too after a month but the attitude of Government has attracted strong criticism from locals and the political spheres as well.
Former Education Minister and MLA Panthers Party Harsh Dev Singh termed the reward as mockery on the face of brave villager. He said, "he showed his alertness, when the security forces and intelligence agencies fail, the villager exposed the nefarious design of the Pakistan, hence he should be encouraged by giving him suitable award and job in any Government department."
Former Minister and Congress leader Manjeet Singh flaying Government decision said that such things should not be happen. Being critical of the meager peanut awarded to villager, Manjeet Singh said, "the decision is late taken by Government, Rs 5100 is bare amount, the minimum amount should be Rs 1 Lakh cash and Government job to the youth who thwarted untoward incident."
MLA Samba Yashpaul Kundal also condemned Government decision. Taking critical stance over the issue, he added that he gave Rs 1500 as awarded from his pocket to the courageous youth but later on he was informed that youth got only Rs 500 where the Rs 1000 gone no one knows.
MLA Kundal said, "Alert youth should be rewarded with Government job so that a good message is flashed among other villagers to be alert and active against the nefarious designs of enemy." RTI activist Raman Sharma also criticized Government decision. " Better to be militant then patriot", criticizing Government, he said. Pertinently, it was on July 28 that a 400m long tunnel, running between India and Pakistan, along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir was found by border villager who informed the BSF and thus started digging process.
During digging, security forces and GSI experts have recovered gas cylinders and empty bottles of water which revealed the nefarious design of the Pakistan to enhance proxy war against India. |
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