Shyam Sood

Rajouri, November 13

In response to a news published in The Tribune under the heading ‘Shelling-hit demand bunker completion’ on Monday, Rajouri Deputy Commissioner MA Asad on Tuesday organised a review meeting and directed the authorities concerned to complete bunkers in view of the deadline, November 30. The DC chaired the review meeting with Public Works Department (PWD) and the Rural Development Department (RDD) officials.

As per official details, 3,141 bunkers, including 2,806 individual and 335 community, were under construction here in Nowshera and Rajouri divisions. As the PWD (R&B) officials had already delayed the construction of 3,008 bunkers in Nowshera division, 1,892 were handed over to the RDD for early and speedy construction.

Assistant Commissioner Development Sushil Khajuria said out of the 1,892 bunkers, including 1,745 individual, 870 had been completed, 383 were at foundation level, 279 at superstructure level.