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Out of 2,061 fencing light poles along Gujarat-Pak border, only 616 are functional
According to the minutes of an inter-departmental co-ordination meeting held in November, the BSF informed CPWD that out of the 2,061 Border Fencing Light poles along the international border in Gujarat’s Bhuj and Gandhinagar Sector, only 616 are functional.
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The minutes further stated that BSF also informed the CPWD that out of 82 diesel gensets, only 38 are functional, affecting operational duties by the troops on the sensitive international border, the minutes stated.
It is to be noted that the meeting was held at BSF Headquarters in New Delhi, during which senior officers of BSF and CPWD, the government’s largest construction agency, discussed several projects. BSF Director General Rajni Kant Mishra and Central Public Works Department DG Prabhakar Singh also attended the meeting.
“Out of 2,061 BFL poles, only 616 BFL poles are functional. Out of 82 DG sets, only 38 DG sets are functional. “CPWD was requested to carry out necessary repair at the earliest as it is affecting operational duties performed by the troops deployed on the sensitive international border,” said the meeting’s minutes prepared by the BSF and sent to the CPWD director general on December 12.
According to the minutes of a meeting, the CPWD intimated that work of repairing of BFLs and DG sets in Bhuj and Gandhi Nagar Sector are in progress and will be handed over to BSF after proper rectifications.
It also stated that in Jammu, out of the 28 command posts in non-composite Border Output Posts, so far only three command posts have been completed and 17 are under-construction with “very slow progress” while work on eight have not yet started.
It added that out of the 43 High Mast Lights in river-line gaps, so far work on 25 HML has been completed while three are under construction with “very slow progress” and 15 HML work has not started yet.
Importantly, India’s border with Pakistan runs through four states, Jammu and Kashmir (1,225 km, which includes 740 km of Line of Control), Rajasthan (1,037 km), Punjab (553 km) and Gujarat (508 km).
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