Rajnath Singh inaugurates smart fencing project along International Border in J&K
Tuesday - September 18, 2018 12:07 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated two pilot projects of smart fencing along the Indo-Pak International Border in Jammu. On the occasion, Rajnath Singh said that government has taken a number of initiatives to make the borders of the country more secure. He said that the Centre has been making maximum use of technology to make the security system at the borders stronger and effective. The Minister said that smart fencing at the borders is a technological solution devised to address the security issues in the border states and the two projects in five km areas each have been installed along the Indo-Pak International Border in Jammu on a pilot basis.
Border fencing through #CIBMS will help in reducing the number of casualties in security forces
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We'll introduce this technology across 2026 km of the border which is considered vulnerable: Home Minister @rajnathsingh
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He said that with this smart fencing, the number of casualties of our soilders on borders would get minimised and the stress level among the jawans would also reduce to a large extent. Home Minister further added 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.
The smart border fencing projects built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) programme is the first of its kind in the country. The two projects each covering a 5.5 km border stretch along the International Border have got hi-tech surveillance system that would create an invisible electronic barrier on land, water and even in air and underground and would help the BSF detect and foil infiltration bids in most difficult terrains. The CIBMS is designed to guard stretches where physical surveillance is not possible either due to inhospitable terrain or riverside borders.
CIBMS uses a number of different devices for surveillance, communication and data storage. Sensors like Thermal Imager, UGS, Fiber Optical Sensors, Radar, and Sonar have been mounted on different platforms like Aerostat, tower, poles etc. A comprehensive integration of such sensors and other technical systems of communication and data processing has been achieved in the CIBMS project. The signals reach the Unified Command and Control Centre where the BSF can monitor the border on real-time basis. The CIBMS enables round-the-clock surveillance on border and under different weather conditions are it in dust storm, fog or rain.
