Amid soaring tensions between India and Pakistan, people in some border villages of Punjab have started moving to safer places.
Villagers in Ferozepur district began shifting their belongings even though the Border Security Force, Indian Army, or any government agency has not issued any official evacuation orders yet.
Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Deepshikha Sharma on Wednesday said that there is no reason for panic in the district, as yet, and neither the army nor the district administration has issued any directive to evacuate border villages.
Tendi Wala, Kalu Wala, Gatti Rajo Ke, Jhugge Hazara, Navi Gatti Rajo Ke, Gatti Rahime Ke, Chandiwala, Basti Bhanewali, Jallo Ke were among the villages from where people were moving to safer areas.
However, in the border villages of Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts, there was no rush to move to a safer place.
What villagers say
Villagers said the decision to move, especially women and children, was their own, according to a report by news agency PTI.
Kakku Singh, 63, a native of the Babmha Haji village in the Mamdot area, told PTI that he had come to meet his two daughters who had been married in Kalu Wala – a village surrounded by the Sutlej river from three sides and Pakistan on the fourth.
He wants his daughters and their families to move to his village till the situation becomes normal.
Pachho Bai, 58, from Tendi Wala village
