Jodhpur, December 6
The Border Security Force (BSF) has launched a special electronic surveillance project to secure over 600 ‘sensitive areas’ along the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders, which will also include areas where fencing is not feasible. is Addressing a press conference on the occasion of the 60th foundation day of the BSF, the force’s Director General (DG) Daljit Singh Chaudhary said that due to rivers and other geographical challenges, about 800 km of the 4,069 km long Indo-Bangladesh border is not fenced. engaged
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said at the BSF Foundation Day in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand in December last year that in the next two years India’s two most important borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh will be fully secured. Chaudhary said that the BSF jawans have been given strict instructions that there should be no incursion on the 2,289 km long India-Pakistan International Border (IB) bordering Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu in the western part of the country.
In Kashmir, the BSF works under the Army to protect the Line of Control (LoC). He said that sensitive areas bordering Pakistan and Bangladesh are being electronically monitored. Chowdhury said that there is ‘very little’ area on the India-Pakistan border where there is no barbed wire.
“We are using drone detection radars in the border areas of Jammu and Punjab… to locate and destroy underground tunnels used by terrorists to cross from Pakistan to India,” he said. is done for infiltration.” -News-Patiala
Anti-drone system to stop cross-border smuggling
Amritsar (News-Patiala News Service): 26 more anti-drone systems will be provided by the central government to prevent the increasing incidents of smuggling of drugs and weapons through drones on India’s border with Pakistan in Punjab. This disclosure was made here today by Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria. Talking to reporters at Guru Nanak Dev University here this evening, he said that the BSF stationed at the border had earlier 12 anti-drone systems to stop the drones coming across the border. He recently met the central government in Delhi and discussed the current situation on the border.
After this, the central government has given approval to provide 26 more anti-drone systems to prevent drug and arms smuggling incidents through drones.