M Humayun Kabir: Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday said his country will launch a digital smart fencing project along Assam state’s border with Bangladesh in November.
Singh made the remark to the media in Jammu city on Monday, reports The Daily Star.
He inaugurated two pilot projects of digital smart fencing, based on Israeli technology, set up along the international border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
During 2015 assembly elections in Assam, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of stopping illegal immigration from Bangladesh brought BJP to power in that state for the first time.
Singh said smart fencing will create an invisible electronic barrier on land, water, air and underground and considerably reduce the dependence on ground troops.
The smart fencing would help the BSF detect and foil infiltration bids in most difficult terrains, an official statement quoted Singh as saying.
The smart fencing projects built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) programme is the first of its kind in India, Singh said; adding the two projects, each covering a 5.5 km border, have hi-tech surveillance system.
The CIBMS is designed to guard stretches where physical surveillance is not possible either due to inhospitable terrain or riverine borders, the Indian Home Minister said.
“Our borders would become absolutely safe since it would virtually make it impossible for the terrorists to breach it and infiltrate across the borders,” Singh said.
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