BSF gears up to prevent infiltration bid

From The Tribune

Chander Parkash/TNS
Ferozepur, August 28
To disallow any infiltration attempt by anti-national elements from across the border by taking advantage of the temporary water bodies created in various pockets of the Indo-Pak border due to the floods in the Sutlej, the Border Security Force (BSF) authorities have pressed boat patrolling into service.
While the manual boats are being used to patrol that area, where the level of water ranges from 1.5 feet to two feet, motor boats have been pressed into service in those segments where the water level has gone up to four to five feet.
New ditch-cum-boat bundhs have been set up apart from the existing ones to sanitise the newly created river gaps. The BSF jawans wearing gum shoes patrol on foot those areas where the level of water is less and boats can not be used.
"Though there is no input, we have set up additional ambush nakas alongside the Cobra fencing on higher and dry grounds to detect and curb any such attempt,' said a senior functionary, who was supervising the patrolling, adding that to avoid snake bites in such situations, all the nakas had been provided with snake kits.
Meanwhile, the students of Tahni Natha Singh Wala falling in Jalalabad sector, which has been cut off from rest of Punjab due to floods, have started using boats to go to their schools located in neighbouring villages.
The BSF had also provided a motor boat to the people of this area.