Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to take salute from BSF troop

From ZeeNews

Sunday, November 24, 2013
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will take ceremonial salute from the troops of country's second largest paramilitary force BSF at a guard of honour function on its Raising Day here later this week.
Kumar will be the chief guest of the Border Security Force (BSF) celebrations on the occasion of its 48th Raising Day on December 1.
The force was raised in 1965 as a border guarding unit and at present is deployed to guard Indian frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It also renders a variety of roles in the internal security domain including conducting anti-Naxal operations.
The celebrations during the Raising Day would include a march past by the troopers and a show of their skills and weapons including award of police medals by Kumar at the BSF camp in south Delhi.
PTI

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41k BSF troops, Rs 5,000 cr infrastructure for Myanmar border

From The Indian Express
PTI : New Delhi, Sun Nov 24 2013
A plan to deploy 41,000 troops and setting up of Rs 5,000 crore infrastructure will be on the government's table this week as it looks to replace Assam Rifles with BSF to guard the porous Indo-Myanmar border.

A team of senior BSF officials will soon make a detailed presentation to the Ministry of Home Affairs as to the force's requirements for stationing its personnel and creating posts along this 1,640 km-long border, which is notorious for movement of insurgents and smuggling of arms and narcotics.

A field survey team is already in the border areas to map the topography and the terrain and forests in the area.

Border Security Force (BSF), according to sources, has projected a requirement of 41 battalions (roughly 41,000 personnel), under three new sectors, to man this border.

The estimated cost of creating the infrastructure for the above, over a period of five years, is about Rs 5,000 crore.