Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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.

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