Rajouri, May 30 -- Fourteen Sikh families in Pukhrni village, located barely a kilometer from the Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, have alleged discriminatory treatment and administrative apathy after being excluded from the government's bunker allocation scheme-despite being within the vulnerable zone frequently targeted by cross-border shelling.
Pukhrni, the last village in India's Qila Darhal tehsil, falls under the central government's 2017-18 scheme to construct individual and community bunkers in border areas. The Rs.415 crore initiatives sanctioned 14,460 bunkers across Jammu and Kashmir. However, while approximately 300 bunkers have been built for Muslim-majority households in the area, none have been alloca...