New Delhi, June 02: Special Services Bureau (SSB), a Central Security Agency, has been assigned the charge of guarding the Indo-Bhutan border and ensuring that anti- national elements like the banned Ulfa were not able to use Bhutanese territory as a base or sanctuary, a home ministry spokesman said today. SSB, which was recently shifted from the Prime Minister's office to the Home Ministry, would now be the 'border guarding force" for the 661-km-long Indo-Bhutan border covering areas of Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, he said. "The home ministry is also examining a proposal to raise additional forces of SSB to meet the increasing need for guarding such borders," the spokesman said.
Recently, he said, there have been reports that anti- national elements of north-east and North Bengal have established training camps and were "mis-utilising" the territory of Bhutan. Bureau Report