The Union Home Ministry has cleared a proposal for absorption of over 2,000 non-combatised personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal into the Intelligence Bureau in order to strengthen the presence of the covert agency along the frontiers with China and Nepal.
The order to the effect was issued by Ministry following a high level meeting between Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and IB chief Rajiv Jain.
According to the blueprint for movement of the SSB personnel to the IB, , the trained, experienced and well acquainted personnel of the paramilitary will be used to upgrade country's intelligence generation and gathering capability along 15,000-kms of India's border. The personnel could undertake tasks aimed at generating nationalist sentiments among the border population. The personnel would be charted over a period of next few months and both the central agencies will "mutually decide the detailed implementation modalities including those related to transfer of assets of the Sashastra Seema Bal to the IB."