India To Launch ‘Smart Border’ Project Along Pakistan, Bangladesh Borders: HM Shah

New Delhi, May 22: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday announced that the government will launch a “smart border” project within the next year to strengthen security along the 6,000-km borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh and curb infiltration.

Addressing the annual Rustamji Memorial Lecture organised by the Border Security Force in New Delhi, Shah said the project would use advanced technology, including drones, radars and smart cameras, to make the borders “impenetrable”.

“I want to assure BSF troops that we will launch this smart border project in the 60th year of its raising and we will make the Pakistan and Bangladesh borders impenetrable,” the minister said.

Shah said the Modi government has decided to create a strong security grid along both borders over the next one year.

He also reiterated the government’s stand against illegal infiltration and said every infiltrator would be identified and deported from the country.

The Home Minister urged BSF personnel to ensure that any “conspiracy” aimed at artificially changing the demography of border areas is defeated.

He said the BJP-led governments in Tripura, West Bengal and Assam support strict measures to prevent infiltration across Indian borders and added that the Union Home Ministry would soon hold a meeting with the chief ministers of these states on border security issues.

Shah further said that the Centre would soon announce a high-powered demography mission earlier proposed by the government.

The Rustamji Memorial Lecture is named after K F Rustamji, the first Director General of the BSF after the force was raised in 1965. (Agencies)