Jammu, March 25 -- Chief minister (CM) Omar Abdullah on Monday admitted that border residents faced numerous challenges and assured to convene a meeting of MLAs from border areas in April to address their issues.

He also informed the J&K legislative assembly here that the government has so far disbursed Rs.144 crore to the border dwellers as compensation for their land acquired for border fencing.

India has built an anti infiltration obstacle system along the 200km long Indo-Pak international border and 744km long Line of Control (LoC) to check terrorists.

Responding to a query by CPI (M) legislator MY Tarigami and supplementary questions from various MLAs , Omar described it a humanitarian issue.

"This is a humanitarian issue. There ...