Border Protection Grid to be set up in India-Bangladesh frontier: Rajnath

Kolkata Dec 7 (IANS) Stating that international border security is of top priority to the government Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said multi-layered Border Protection Grid would be set up across the India-Bangladesh border.

"The total length of India-Bangladesh border is 4 096 km of which 3 006 km has been fenced. But remaining 1 090 km of border is not fenced yet. We have decided to implement technological solution in this region which can also be termed as non-physical barrier " Singh said after conducting a meeting here on developmental security issues in the India-Bangladesh border with the chief ministers of states bordering Bangladesh.

"Of the non-fenced areas 684 km would be secured with fence and related infrastructures. The remaining 406 km of border area would come under non-physical barriers as fencing in these places is not feasible " he pointed out.

He also said that apart from the physical and non-physical barriers the entire India-Bangladesh border would be brought under Border Protection Grid for fool-proof security.

"The grid will comprise of various elements including physical and non-physical barriers surveillance systems intelligence agencies state police Border Security Force (BSF) and other state and central agencies " he added.

--IANS
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