Union minister Dr. Jitendra Singh announces construction of 600 new family bunkers in J&K’s border areas

An automated, centralised siren system would be installed, which will be controlled from the district headquarters.

STC NEWS DESK
JAMMU, MAY 14 (STC): Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh during a day-long visit to areas along the international border in Jammu on Tuesday announced that an additional 600 bunkers would be constructed and an automated, centralised siren system will be set up in border areas.
Dr. Singh stated that more than 2,000 family bunkers were built for residents of border areas in J&K in the past few years.
He said Kathua was the first district in the country to experiment with family bunkers in border areas when he, as an MP, had taken up the issue soon after Narendra Modi took over as prime minister. Thereafter, more than 2,000 such bunkers came up in the border areas.
In response to the public demand for more bunkers, the union minister disclosed that he has immediately issued directions for the construction of 600 additional family bunkers and more later, if needed.
He has also directed the use of modern technology instead of manually operated sirens. “An automated, centralised siren system would be installed, which will be controlled from the district headquarters. It will start operating spontaneously, and the siren will be sounded through speakers set up at each border village,” he said.
(STC)