Multi-layered security system for border

From The Tribune

Chander Parkash
Tribune News Service

Ferozepur, December 7
A new system has been evolved for making the 553-km-long Indo-Pak border in Punjab impregnable for anti-national elements, who would try to push men, explosives, weapons, fake Indian currency notes and narcotics from across the Radcliffe line to foment trouble in India by taking advantage of the foggy season, which has descended in the state.
The new system, which has been devised at individual level by each sector of the BSF and collectively by the Punjab Frontiers authorities, has been kept secret so that the anti-national elements across the border could be denied any chance to breach the same by devising their strategies.
Information gathered by The Tribune said the BSF authorities had given more stress on foolproof security arrangements this time due to the fact that cobra fencing, which was erected on the Indo-Pak border about two decades ago to check infiltration, had been washed away at many places due to low floods during the monsoon season in Ravi and Sutlej rivers, which ran parallel to the border in Gurdaspur and Ferozepur districts, respectively.
Apart from it, all riverine gaps, which have been created by Ravi, Sutlej, Ujh, Tarnah and Jalalia rivers in Gurdaspur, Amritsar and Ferozepur districts on the Indo-Pak border, had been sanitised and new checkpoints had been set up.
“We have erected multi-layer security system and it has been further strengthened by creating security layers within security layers so that nothing can be left to chance. We can expect anything from the anti-national elements operating from Pakistan and, hence, we have to be vigilant always,” pointed out a senior functionary of the BSF while pleading anonymity.
Quick reaction teams (QRTs) had already been deployed on the border. The vehicular, mounted and foot-patrolling men had been equipped with latest weapons and electronic gadgets. The strength of troops manning the border had been increased, he said, adding that intelligence inputs had indicated that anti-national elements could indulge in mischief at anytime.
All officers of the BSF, including the DIG-level officers, had been asked to be the part of patrolling at regular intervals and jawans manning the border in extreme cold and foggy condition would be taken care of.
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