Over 90 days after torrential rains ravaged northern India and washed away stretches of border fencing in the Jammu and Punjab sectors, the Border Security Force (BSF) has almost completed restoration work along the frontier.

Top BSF officials told The Tribune that fencing work in Jammu has been fully restored, while in Punjab it is about 95 per cent complete.

“As of now, fencing along the Pakistan border has been put back in place. Permanent civil repair work on border outposts will be completed gradually,” a senior BSF official said, adding that the restored fencing is “up to the mark” to prevent infiltration.

Heavy rains between late August and mid-September had flooded around 100 km of border areas along Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir —

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