No provision to transport paddy harvest, says MLA

The government has also not made any provision to transport the paddy harvest which will be in tonnes," says Sukhjinder Randhawa, the local MLA representing Dera Baba Nanak.
"With the road to Kathua blocked for security reasons and no other way to transport the harvest, the farmers are worried." Besides the villagers, there are a number of farmers from neighbouring areas who have their fields in the no man's land outside the border fence who visit Ghaniye Ke Bet only during harvest season.
Nearly 15,000 acres in this area is under cultivation across the Ravi near the fence. Every day, some 500 to 700 people make the two-kilometre journey on Mohinder's boat.
On normal days, when there is no crisis, travelers include schoolchildren and government teachers too.
The Punjab government had on Thursday ordered evacuation from nearly 1,000 border villages in six districts to makeshift camps. Nearly 780 relief camps were being readied with medical and food supplies and Rs 1-crore aid dispatched to each district.