Ferozepur, Aug. 12 -- The row over the proposed 31-km Ditch-cum-Bund (DCB) project along the India-Pakistan border in Fazilka district reached Punjab Lok Bhavan on Wednesday, with governor Gulab Chand Kataria assuring protesting farmers that their concerns would be re-examined, while maintaining that national security could not be compromised.

A delegation of the Bann Roko Chardi Kala Sangharsh Morcha, led by Fazilka-based social worker Karan Gilhotra, met Kataria and submitted a memorandum raising concerns over the proposed defence embankment being built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

Kataria assured the delegation that an army technical team would visit the site to assess the project and examine its technical aspects. Its rep...