Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 22: The Centre told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir has declined drastically since 2018, with an estimated 366 infiltrations registered across the border between 2018 and 2021.
Nityanand Rai, the Union Minister for Home Affairs, has written to Lok Sabha MP Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt in response to his question.
“The infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) has decreased significantly since 2018 in Jammu and Kashmir. The Estimated Net Infiltration during the last four years is 366,” he said.
“A considerable number of suspected terrorists remain stationed at various launch pads in Pakistan or Pakistan Occupied Kashmir,” MoS Home Rai told the Lower House.
Since the abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A from the erstwhile state in August 2019, the Centre notified the Lok Sabha that a total of 11,324 gazetted, non-gazetted, and class-IV jobs have been filled in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a written response to a question from BJP leader Gopal Chinnaya Shetty, Nityanand Rai revealed the data.
In response to Shetty’s query, Rai stated that the government has made many initiatives to replace all vacant positions in the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh from August 2019.
