Chandigarh, July 30 -- Just two weeks after the Punjab assembly unanimously passed a resolution opposing the deployment of central security forces at Bhakra and other hydel installations, the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), it is learnt, has made a payment of Rs.8.58 crore to the Union ministry of home affairs for Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) deployment.

The CISF is slated to be deployed at critical sites managed by BBMB, including Bhakra and Pong dams, power houses, and the downstream project regulating water supply to Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan.

Confirming the development, top officials of the BBMB, who didn't wish to be named, said this paves the way for the deployment of central forces at the sites under it.

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