Fencing and Floodlighting at Borders The Government has approved construction of fencing and floodlighting along international borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan andMyanmar. Border-wise details of sanctioned length of fencing and floodlighting, completed works and expenditure incurred so far, on these works are given below:- Border Fencing Floodlighting Sanctioned Length (in km) Works completed so far ( in km) Expenditure incurred (Rs. incrore) Sanctioned length (in km) Works completed so far (in km) Expenditure incurred (Rs. incrore) Indo-Bangladesh 3436.59 2734.73 3772.00 3117.00 677.00 315.00 Indo-Pakistan 2043.63 1952.72 850.98 2009.52 1861.92 420.48 Indo-Myanmar 10.00 - 7.36 - - - The border fencing and floodlighting works are scheduled to be completed by March 2012. This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Mullappally Ramachandran in written reply to a question in Lok Sabhatoday. ***** RS/KS (Release ID :67881) |
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
US Army to Use Futuristic Rifles for the First Time in Afghanistan
From Army-Technologies
30 November 2010
The US Army is set to start using a futuristic rifle, the XM25, which is capable of firing radio-controlled smart bullets, for the first time in Afghanistan.
The XM25 has a range of 2,300ft and uses programmed bullets that explode when they have travelled a set distance, making it possible to hit targets that are out of the reach of conventional rifles.
The rifle's 25mm round is fitted with a chip that receives a radio signal from the gun sight, which uses a laser rangefinder to determine the exact distance to the obstruction to be able to hit the target.
Project manager for the system lieutenant colonel Christopher Lehner expects the army to buy 12,500 rifles this year.
US army project manager for new weapons Douglas Tamilio said the rounds cost £15.50 a piece.
The rifle has been specially developed for the US army and will be deployed later this month.
BSF may guard border with Myanmar
From Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The Border Security Force (BSF) may soon be tasked with guarding the Indo-Myanmar border, leaving Assam Rifles, the force currently deployed in areas bordering Myanmar , to concentrate on counter-insurgency operations in Manipur and Nagaland.
BSF has already indicated its willingness to take over charge of the 1,643 km Indo-Myanmar border, but sought sanctioning 41 additional battalions before it assumes new responsibility. The additional manpower is needed to handle infiltration, smuggling and other border-related issues.
“BSF was asked if it was willing and capable of taking over security of the Indo-Myanmar border, as the Assam Rifles is deployed well inside the border and not really effective (in handling border-related issues). We have already said that we are ready to move in provided we are sanctioned 41 additional battalions, and given more sectors and frontiers,” BSF director-general Raman Srivastava told a press conference here on Monday ahead of the force’s 45th Raising Day.
The home ministry is agreeable to BSF’s request and may soon sanction raising of more battalions to make way for the force’s induction at the border with Myanmar. It has formally identified BSF as the force for guarding the said border and may soon put up the proposal before the Cabinet Committee on Security for clearance. “BSF can start setting up border outposts following the clearance, which could be 3-4 months from now,” said a senior government official.
BSF’s induction at the Indo-Myanmar border is crucial to the government’s border roads development programme. The force will provide the security component for the government’s ambitious plans to construct border roads adjoining China, Bangladesh and Myanmar. “Once BSF moves in, its personnel can give cover to CPWD and PWD contractors and engineers to take up road projects near the Indo-Myanmar border,” an official pointed out.
At present, the Assam Rifles is burdened with the twin responsibility of guarding the treacherous India-Myanmar border and also conducting counter-insurgency operations in Manipur and Nagaland. There has always been a school of thought that Assam Rifles, the oldest paramilitary force in the country, should be relieved of its border guarding responsibilities and allowed to concentrate solely on counter-insurgency operations.
As of now, BSF is mandated to guard the India-Bangladesh border in north-east. The Assam Rifles is tasked with guarding the India-Myanmar border and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police is looks after the India-Bhutan border.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/BSF-may-guard-border-with-Myanmar/articleshow/7012547.cms
NEW DELHI: The Border Security Force (BSF) may soon be tasked with guarding the Indo-Myanmar border, leaving Assam Rifles, the force currently deployed in areas bordering Myanmar , to concentrate on counter-insurgency operations in Manipur and Nagaland.
BSF has already indicated its willingness to take over charge of the 1,643 km Indo-Myanmar border, but sought sanctioning 41 additional battalions before it assumes new responsibility. The additional manpower is needed to handle infiltration, smuggling and other border-related issues.
“BSF was asked if it was willing and capable of taking over security of the Indo-Myanmar border, as the Assam Rifles is deployed well inside the border and not really effective (in handling border-related issues). We have already said that we are ready to move in provided we are sanctioned 41 additional battalions, and given more sectors and frontiers,” BSF director-general Raman Srivastava told a press conference here on Monday ahead of the force’s 45th Raising Day.
The home ministry is agreeable to BSF’s request and may soon sanction raising of more battalions to make way for the force’s induction at the border with Myanmar. It has formally identified BSF as the force for guarding the said border and may soon put up the proposal before the Cabinet Committee on Security for clearance. “BSF can start setting up border outposts following the clearance, which could be 3-4 months from now,” said a senior government official.
BSF’s induction at the Indo-Myanmar border is crucial to the government’s border roads development programme. The force will provide the security component for the government’s ambitious plans to construct border roads adjoining China, Bangladesh and Myanmar. “Once BSF moves in, its personnel can give cover to CPWD and PWD contractors and engineers to take up road projects near the Indo-Myanmar border,” an official pointed out.
At present, the Assam Rifles is burdened with the twin responsibility of guarding the treacherous India-Myanmar border and also conducting counter-insurgency operations in Manipur and Nagaland. There has always been a school of thought that Assam Rifles, the oldest paramilitary force in the country, should be relieved of its border guarding responsibilities and allowed to concentrate solely on counter-insurgency operations.
As of now, BSF is mandated to guard the India-Bangladesh border in north-east. The Assam Rifles is tasked with guarding the India-Myanmar border and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police is looks after the India-Bhutan border.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/BSF-may-guard-border-with-Myanmar/articleshow/7012547.cms
AP Singh appointed new CBI Director
From samaylive
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IPS officer Amar Pratap Singh on Tuesday was appointed as the new director of the Central Bureau of Investigation for next two years.
Singh, who has replaced Ashwani Kumar was the Special Director of the CBI.
Singh has also served as additional Director General in the Border Security Force (BSF).
Singh’s name was approved by the Appointment’s Committee of the Cabinet, which is headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Singh, a 1974 batch IPS officer from Jharkhand cadre is a recipient of Indian Police Medal and President's Police Medal.
Ashwani Kumar, whose term comes to an end on Tuesday, took over as the Director on August 2, 2008. He held the position for a period of two years and four months
Ashwani Kumar, whose term comes to an end on Tuesday, took over as the Director on August 2, 2008. He held the position for a period of two years and four months
BSF trooper found dead inside train
From webindia123
Lucknow |Tuesday, 2010 2:05:10 PM IST
A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper posted in Jammu and Kashmir was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a train in Uttar Pradesh, police said Tuesday.
The body of Mukesh Kumar, aged around 40, was found Monday evening inside the Jammu Tawi Express in Sultanpur district. He was on his way to his native state of Bihar, police said.
Even as the exact reason behind the death is yet to be ascertained, some injury marks have been found around Kumar's nose.
"Some passengers first spotted Kumar lying dead on the upper berth of a general bogey of the train," Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector G.P. Singh told reporters Tuesday in Sultanpur, some 150 km from Lucknow.
"We have already sent the body for post-mortem. The report is expected to come later in the day," he added.
According to police, Kumar was going to his native Vaishali district in Bihar by train.
--Indo-Asian News Service
Tired BSF can now catch some sleep
From The Hindustan Times
New Delhi, November 29, 2010
India’s jawans guarding the borders can finally catch some sleep. The Border Security Force (BSF) has asked all units to give the men and women deployed along the borders six hours sleep every 24 hours, and a day off every week. So far, BSF personnel could not sleep for more than two hours at a stretch.
“They would take their bedding along when they stepped out of their outpost to their respective locations… and take turns sleeping,” said BSF’s additional director general (Human Resources) Arvind Ranjan.
For a perennially short of personnel force to keep an eye on more than 6,600 km of Indian borders, there seemed to be no other way.
“The jawan will either collapse… or sleep on duty,” BSF director general Raman Srivastava — who rewrote the rules of deployment for the force — conceded.
“This had become a tired force… the men were working with very little rest… nobody can sleep in shifts for too long and perform,” Srivastava said, counting the new personnel policies to give the jawans time off as his “most important personal achievement”.
Srivastava also introduced the concept of a weekly off. “In the paramilitary forces, there was no concept of a holiday…You were always on duty, literally,” the BSF commandant said.
On their holidays, Srivastava said the jawans would still not be able to leave their border outpost. “But they will be free to do anything they want… sleep, watch TV or read,” he said.
Srivastava said there were some locations where jawans won’t get these benefits. “But this is a small number and will be taken care of with new recruitments.”
Monday, November 29, 2010
US Condemns Wikileaks Release
From Army-Technologies.Com
29 November 2010
The US has condemned the release of more than 250,000 secret dispatches revealing military strategies and diplomatic communications on the controversial Wikileaks website.
Among the leaks, revealed in a number of US diplomatic messages obtained by the site, are statements from Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah urging the US to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities and US officials labelling Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as "feckless, vain and ineffective".
The leaked documents also contained US and UK concerns that Pakistani nuclear material could fall into the hands of militants, enabling them to construct nuclear weapons.
While the White House labelled the release as "reckless", Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said US authorities were afraid of being held to account.
The UK and Australian Foreign Offices joined the US condemnation of the leaks, labelling them as potentially dangerous to national security, while Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini labelled the release as the "September 11 of world diplomacy". Australian police are currently investigating whether any laws were broken in the release.
House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee member Peter King said: "The latest release manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Other leaks include Iranian attempts to acquire North Korean rockets, Germany being warned not to enforce arrest warrants for CIA officers, alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime, and US officials being instructed to spy on Hillary Clinton's UN leadership.
BSF seeks powers of search, seizure and arrest
From Yahoo News
Mon, Nov 29 07:17 PM
New Delhi, Nov 29 (PTI) Facing problems in identifying and arresting suspects in their anti-naxal operations, the BSF has written to the Home Ministry asking for powers of search, seizure and arrest as exercised by forces like the CRPF. The Border Security Force (BSF) has deployed almost 10,000 troops for anti-naxal duties in Chhattisgarh and Orissa but according to sources, the force is not empowered under the law to search, seize or arrest a suspect. "We have written to the Home Ministry to insert these relevant sections in the BSF Act so that the force can perform its duties without any glitches.
The CRPF enjoys such powers in the naxal affected zones and when deployed for internal security duties in the country," BSF sources said. Everytime the force is undertaking an operation, it cannot go for search or arrest of a suspect.
The state police has to be called in. This is not possible always and hence an amendment in the BSF Act on the lines of CRPF and SSB Acts is needed, they said.
The BSF also operates the fleet of helicopters deployed to assist ground forces undertaking anti-naxal operations.
BSF wants filling of vacancies in its air wing
From Yahoo News
From Yahoo News
Mon, Nov 29 05:50 PM
Mon, Nov 29 05:50 PM
New Delhi, Nov 29 (PTI) Facing "teething problems" in its Air wing, the BSF has approached the Union Home Ministry to fill up vacant posts in the flying branch of the elite unit deployed in Naxal-affected areas of the country. The BSF, under which the Air wing of the Home Ministry operates, will also acquire four new Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) Dhruvs soon for troop deployment, casualty evacuation and sending reinforcements to assist anti-Naxal opeartions.
"That (filing of vacant posts) is a difficulty which we have projected to the Home Ministry. There are some difficulties with various kinds of posts.
support posts including maintenance and operations.
Pilots, of course.
We are training our own Central Paramilitary Forces (CPMFs) pilots," BSF chief Raman Srivastava told reporters when he was asked about the vacant posts in the air wing during the forces'' annual press conference here. "There are certain gaps we are filing up.
There are a number of teething problems in the air wing (of the Border Security Force)," he said. The BSF helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are largely operated by IAF pilots and pilots who join the wing after retirement from active professional flying service.
The BSF Director General also said there were "certain operational constraints" in the full-time serviceability of the helicopters'' fleet deployed for anti-Naxal duties as the new ''Dhruvs'' need to be "serviced frequently." "There is no dispute or problem in the operation of the helicopters fleet for anti-Naxal duties.
But there are certain operational constraints.
because these are new helicopters and they need to be serviced frequently.
They are not always available, round-the-clock.
they are not like cars," Srivastava said. In order to aid the ground forces with ''air support'' in anti-Naxal duties, the BSF has also operationalised airbases at Ranchi and Raipur and ten pilots of the CPMFs are undergoing helicopter flying training at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for eighteen months, he said.
The BSF chief said the government is also in the process of purchasing two more aircraft as the existing fleet is ageing. "The BSF has three AVROs.
they need to be replaced. One is almost gone, the other two are breathing their last.
We are in the process of purchasing two more aircraft," he said. The BSF DG said new helicopters, as and when arrive, will be deployed in a streamlined fashion and new helibases could also be built for them.
Nehchal Sandhu Appointed OSD, Intelligence Bureau
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs
29-November-2010 15:06 IST
Shri Nehchal Sandhu, IPS(BH-73), currently Special Director, Intelligence Bureau has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Intelligence Bureau with effect from 1-12-2010.
He will take over as Director, Intelligence Bureau for a period of two years with effect from 01.01.2011. He will succeed Shri Rajiv Mathur, IPS (UP-72)
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BSF jawan killed
From The Times Of India
Nov 29, 2010
A BSF jawan Ram Baran was run over and killed by a private SUMO on National Highway No 31 near bus terminal at Kishanganj on Monday noon.
BSF officer apologises
From The Times Of India
Nov 29, 2010
A Border Security Force (BSF) deputy commandant Sanjay Kumar posted at Attari land border had to apologies to the agitating truck drivers after he allegedly thrashed one truck driver Gurmeet Singh who was on way to Pakistan to off load a truckload of tomatoes.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bsf-apologise/speednewsbytopic/keyid-486870.cms
Nov 29, 2010
A Border Security Force (BSF) deputy commandant Sanjay Kumar posted at Attari land border had to apologies to the agitating truck drivers after he allegedly thrashed one truck driver Gurmeet Singh who was on way to Pakistan to off load a truckload of tomatoes.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bsf-apologise/speednewsbytopic/keyid-486870.cms
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