Special Report – Quest for Survival – Video

Posted: Published on February 27th, 2013

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Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSahfrQQ2do



Special Report - Quest for Survival
This Special Report talks about the issues ailing the villages surrounding the Indo-Pakistan border along the state of Punjab. We reached the Dhinda border post and interacted with the BSF jawans who after repeated requests allowed us to go near the border fence. Pakistani villages were barely 15 meters away where the movement on the foreign territory was clearly visible. We experienced the life inside bunkers, at view points of the BSF jawans and even saw what an army tower looked like from where you could see the posts in J K. Drive inside the border villages was not easy because of the difficult terrain and hostile weather. But once you enter the villages, one feels that life here is not easy. Farmers owning land beyond the border fence are fighting for adequate compensation as they are allowed to do farming for a specific number of hours. Moreover, their land was snatched away from them by the BSF and Home Ministry for building the border fence way back in 1995. Since then, their livelihoods have been drastically affected, heightened by reality of security issues, inability of getting loans and that they cannot grow crops which are beyond 5 metres of height. Apart from this there are many other problems plaguing the region. Illicit drugs are a big menace inside these border villages. Large numbers of youths have taken to substance abuse. There is rampant unemployment because there are no industries nearby. Health is also a very big issue as doctors attend to the ...

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