In an effort to ensure that no one dies while guarding the international borders, the Government of India has decided to use technology under comprehensive integrated border management scheme, said Union Minister for Home Affair Rajnath Singh during his visit to Gujarat.
Modi Government would use technological solutions to secure bordering areas and try to fill the existing gaps in borders, said Singh while addressing BSF personnel near Nadabet near the Pakistan border in North Gujarat district Banaskantha at a felicitation function of family members of 20 BSF men from Gujarat who laid down lives on the line of since early 1990.
The Minister said that the Union Government would lay a network of radars, laser fences, motion sensors and CCTV cameras along the international borders in Gujarat, Punjab, West Bengal and Tripura. With a prime objective to protect lives of BSF personnel, a pilot project would be launched along the Pakistan border in Gujarat and Punjab as well as along Bangladesh Border in West Bengal and Tripura, he added. In fact West Bengal is sharing border with Nepal and Bhutan apart from Bangladesh.
Singh claimed that after the Modi Government’s announcement to seal Bangladesh border connecting eastern State Assam and initiation of pilot project there has been 50 per cent drop in the number of successful infiltration. He further said that there has been also considerable drop in the successful infiltration along Indo-Pak border.
Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State for Defence said during the function that one of the reasons for reduction in infiltration along Pakistan border was freehand given to BSF personnel to retaliate, if provoked by the Modi Government. The MoS said that during the previous regime, the Defence Forces used to bind and had to resolve the issues by talk only. However, freehand given by the Modi Government has increased confidence of Defence personnel, he added.