The Border Security Force (BSF) has prepared a blueprint for exercising technical solutions to secure the border with Pakistan and Bangladesh, with the Centre sanctioning 30 crore for procuring surveillance equipment, drones, and other gadgets to strengthen deployment capabililtes in the treacherous terrains in western and eastern sectors.
With the use of drones for ferrying narcotics and weapons remaining the biggest challenge, especially in the Punjab frontier, BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh told the media ahead of raising day of his force that they are still to find a fool-proof solution to counter the menace of aerial platforms. He, however, said they had been able to take down 16 of them till this month which was way ahead of one shotdown last year.
‘International border’
BSF mans 6,386.36 km of border, with the Indo-Pak stretch spread over 2,289.66 km is called ‘International Border’, while for the rest Line of Control deployment, more than 435 km out of 772 km is under operations control of Army. The BSF looks after Indo-Bangladesh Border also, which is lined over 4,96.70 km.
“We have tried to enhance the surveillance in border areas in a very very big way. This entails use of surveillance cameras and drones on the western and eastern theatres (Pakistan and Bangladesh fronts respectively).” “We have got around 5,500 CCTV surveillance cameras and some other gadgets and the Union Home Ministry has sanctioned a 30 crore fund for this procurement,” Singh said...
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