JAMMU: About 8,000 underground bunkers have been completed for the safety of the people living along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) in Jammu province, while directions were passed to float tenders of bunkers the construction of which have not been taken up, officials said on Sunday.
The Centre has sanctioned the construction of 14,460 individual and community bunkers for the border residents in the five districts of Jammu, Kathua and Samba covering the villages located along the IB and Poonch and Rajouri villages on the LoC.
Later, the government sanctioned over 4,000 additional bunkers to cover a more vulnerable population.
“A total of 7,923 bunkers, including 6,964 individual and 959 community bunkers, have been completed so far in (Jammu) division,” an official spokesman said, as Jammu divisional commissioner Raghav Langer reviewed the progress on the construction of the safety structures at a meeting here.
He was informed that the construction of 9,905 other pending bunkers are also under execution and are at different stages of completion.
Taking strong note of the delay in tendering for the pending bunkers, Langer directed concerned executive engineers to complete the process fast.