Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 26

Lok Sabha member Gurjeet Singh Aujla on Saturday took up the issues of farmers tilling their land across the barbed fence on the international border with Pakistan in the Ajnala area with officials of the Border Security Force (BSF).

Aujla said entry pass for farmers, their families and their workers, permission to drill borewells for tubewells, installation and repair of electricity transformers and issues related with revenue records were also taken up with the officials of civil administration and BSF officials. Aujla said complaints of farmers were resolved on the spot. He took a round of the border outposts Kakkar, Fatehpur, Wadai Cheema, Kot Razada. He was joined by DIG BSF Bhupinder Singh, SDM Ajnala Deepak Bhatia, Commandant PS Bhatti, Superintending Engineer Irrigation Manjeet Singh and other senior officials. The team also took stock of the damage done to river banks due to change of route of Ravi in the border area. Aujla said all departments with which the farmers had unresolved issues assured to prepare a report within next few days.