New Delhi, Sep 17 (Just News): India will launch a digital smart fencing project along Assam state’s border with Bangladesh in November, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said.
Singh made the remark to the media in Jammu city on Monday after inaugurating two pilot projects of digital smart fencing, based on Israeli technology, set up along the international border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the promise of stopping illegal immigration from Bangladesh a key plan in 2015 assembly elections in Assam which brought BJP to power in that state for the first time.
Singh said smart fencing is expected to bring down the casualties of border troopers and will create an invisible electronic barrier on land, water, air and underground and considerably reduce the dependence on ground troops, our New Delhi correspondent reports.
At the biannual BGB-BSF DG-level conference here earlier this month, India had flagged the issue of increasing attacks on BSF personnel along the border by Bangladeshi criminals when Bangladesh raised the issue of border killings by the BSF.
The smart fencing would help the BSF detect and foil infiltration bids in most difficult terrains, an official statement quoted Singh as saying.
The smart fencing projects built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) programme is the first of its kind in India, Singh said; adding the two projects, each covering a 5.5 km border, have hi-tech surveillance system.
The CIBMS is designed to guard stretches where physical surveillance is not possible either due to inhospitable terrain or riverine borders, the Indian Home Minister said.
Singh said that with the digital smart fencing, “our borders would become absolutely safe since it would virtually make it impossible for the terrorists to breach it and infiltrate across the borders.”
(Justnews/ys/1310hr)
