BSF plans 10 m-high, 179 km-long wall along Jammu-Pak border

[Daedalus]

India will build a raised embankment along a 179-km stretch on the Jammu sector to pre-empt infiltration or shelling from across the Pakistan border , says the BSF chief. The embankment, or bund, will be around 135 feet (41 metres) wide and 10 metres high and accommodate bunkers and border outposts.

"The BSF is waiting for the state government to acquire land along the stretch we have identified. The embankment will be followed by fencing," says Subhash Joshi, DG BSF. "There are a few riverine patches too along the border in Jammu. To secure them we are looking for technological solutions."

An official said they were waiting for no-objection-certificates from at least 24 MLAs, a necessity under the state's land acquisition laws.

"Land in 29 villages has already been acquired," says R K Varma, divisional commissioner of Samba in Jammu. Similar exercises have been initiated in Kathua and Jammu districts.

"There are at least two villages in my jurisdiction, Chak Parthyal and Kazalkhurd, where the process has not begun," says Varma. "This is because the border areas are rigged with mines planted during the 1971 war and again during the Kargil war in 1999. Officials cannot go there to carry out a survey." The DG said the BSF will help the state administration to de-mine the areas.

BSF plans 10 m-high, 179 km-long wall along Jammu-Pak border - Indian Express

 

[My-Analogous]

It is violation of agreement between India and Pakistan and if Pakistan Challenge in International it will win the case and the reason is that it is not Border but its working boundary

 

[kaykay]

Good move by BSF.

 

[janon]

It is violation of agreement between India and Pakistan and if Pakistan Challenge in International it will win the case and the reason is that it is not Border but its working boundary

It will be constructed inside Indian territory, not on the border itself; just like the LoC fencing is about 150 metres into the Indian side. Nobody can take us to court for building a wall in our own territory.

 

[MohitV]

we need it more along the Indo-bangla border

 

[RazPaK]

indians keep building.

We'll keep shelling.

 

[President]

pak can challenge anything from 65 and 71 victories to no pak forces in kargil

 

[[Bregs]]

This wall is good idea as it will protect villagers too in case of shelling n cross firing

 

[Indian-Lion]

Well thats great, we need to fortify as much as we can so that di*kheads who try to cross LoC will be eliminated.

indians keep building.

We'll keep shelling.

 

[chhota bheem]

good move

 

[Echo_419]

We need a such a Wall on Indo-Bangladesh border

 

[bornmoron]

Soon we shall see " Great wall of India "

 

[SR-91]

Wall is a great idea, however we should take back the land we lost first, only then we should construct the wall. If we construct this wall, we will never get back our lost land.

 

[ares]

indians keep building.

We'll keep shelling.

So what's new in that, we shell you back...in the mean while..the embankment combined with three layers of electrified fences, electronic surveillance, hand held thermal imagers make infiltration more expensive for you. No of Pakistani soldiers, civilians and terrorist killed to both Indian return fire and COIN ops in border area increase.While Indian troops get better defensive position in bunkers on raised embankment, thereby decreasing casualties on Indian side.

 

[RazPaK]

So what's new in that, we shell you back...in the mean while..the embankment combined with three layers of electrified fences, electronic surveillance, hand held thermal imagers make infiltration more expensive for you. No of Pakistani soldiers, civilians and terrorist killed to both Indian return fire and COIN ops in border area increase.While Indian troops get better defensive position in bunkers on raised embankment, thereby decreasing casualties on Indian side.

Indian bunkers just provide easier targeys for shelling.

derp.