Border Fencing Protection along Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar borders in the final stage

According to the Union Home Ministry's annual report for 2022-23, fencing and road development along the 4,000-kilometer India-Bangladesh border will be finished by March 2024.

 

It has one of the most porous international borders, and it regularly sees illegal movement and infiltrators engaging in crimes such as human and drug trafficking.

 

 

"The total length of the Indo-Bangladesh border is 4,096.7 km, out of which 3,180.653 km has been covered by physical fencing and the remaining about 916.047 km will be covered by physical and non-physical barriers by March 2024," according to the ministry's latest annual report.

 

"Technological solutions will be used to overcome the non-physical barrier." Sanction has also been granted to replace the previous fence design with a new fence design. Similarly, in order to improve communication and operational mobility, 3,785.30 km of border roads have been built so far out of the authorized length of 4,223.04 km, with the remainder to be finished by March 2024."

 

The India-Bangladesh border spans across West Bengal (2,216.7 kilometers), Assam (263 kilometers), Meghalaya (443 kilometers), Tripura (856 kilometers), and Mizoram (318 kilometers).

 

The report stated that the "Government has sanctioned 2,078.80 km of floodlights, out of which 2,043.76 km has been completed and remaining 35.04 km work is in progress" along the 3,323 km Pakistan border that spans through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh.

 

Furthermore, to prevent infiltration and smuggling from across the border, the MHA (ministry of home affairs) has sanctioned a 2,097.646 km fence, of which 2,064.666 km has been completed, while 675 border outposts (BOPs) have been completed out of 736 sanctioned BOPs along the Indo-Pakistan border, with the remainder to be completed by June 2025."

 

The Border Security Force, which is in charge of the Bangladesh and Pakistan borders, conducted research based on the area's vulnerability, topographical conditions, crime pattern, and peculiarities, after which the borders were categorized into distinct segments."The concept of Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System is the integration of manpower, sensors, networks, intelligence, and command control solutions to improve situational awareness at different levels of hierarchy to facilitate prompt and quick response to emerging situations," the authors of the report stated.

 

The delineation of 1,472 km of the 1,643 km India-Myanmar border, which recently saw the illegal movement of Chin-Kukis, has been completed. "An advanced smart fencing system of 100 km along the Indo-Myanmar border is in the pipeline to strengthen the existing surveillance system," according to the article.

 

India and Myanmar have a 1,643-kilometer border that extends through Arunachal Pradesh (520 kilometers), Nagaland (215 kilometers), Manipur (398 kilometers), and Mizoram (510 kilometers).