Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Sanjeev Verma today directed Deputy Commissioners of Border districts and executing agencies to expedite the pace of work on construction of bunkers for their timely completion.
The Div Com passed these directions while chairing a meeting with DCs of border districts to review the progress on construction of bunkers along international border.
The Deputy Commissioners apprised the Div Com about the progress of works on under construction individual and community bunkers in their respective districts.
It was informed that a total of 6225 bunkers have been completed so far in the division including 5628 individual bunkers and 597 community bunkers.
It was apprised that 1369 bunkers including community and individual bunkers have been completed in district samba, 955 in district Jammu, 1230 in district Kathua, 2109 in district Rajouri, 562 in district Poonch have been completed. They further informed that remaining bunkers are also under different stages of construction.
The Div Com asked the DCs to monitor the construction of bunkers and directed the executing agencies to expedite the pace of work and adhere to the fixed timelines for completion of construction of individual and community bunkers at the earliest.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Director Planning, Chaman Lal, Chief Planning Officers, Joginder Katoch, besides executive engineers of executing agencies while Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, Samba, Rajouri, Poonch along with concerned officers attended the meeting through video conferencing.