Ferozepur, July 2 -- The row over the proposed 31-km Ditch-cum-Bund (DCB) project along the Indo-Pak border in Fazilka district has reached Punjab Lok Bhavan, with governor Gulab Chand Kataria assuring protesting farmers that he will take up their concerns with Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh. A delegation of the Bann Roko Chardi Kala Sangharsh Morcha, led by Fazilka-based social activist Karan Gilhotra, met the governor in Chandigarh on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum highlighting concerns over the Border Roads Organisation's (BRO) proposed defence embankment. "We have been protesting for the past 18 days as the proposed project could adversely affect agricultural land across 18 border villages and disrupt the region's natural drainage system, increasing the risk of flooding during the monsoon," alleged farmer leader Parmjit Singh Noor Shah. The delegation urged the governor to visit the affected villages to assess the ground situation. Kataria assured them that he would soon discuss the matter with Shah and Rajnath to explore a practical solution that balanced national security requirements with the interests of border residents....