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Flood lights installed along 41 km of IB in Jammu division
Jammu, July 07: Installation of flood lights along 41 km of the fenced International Border (IB) in Jammu division has been completed so far, a senior BSF official has said.
Jammu, July 07: Installation of flood lights along 41 km of the fenced International Border (IB) in Jammu division has been completed so far, a senior BSF official has said.
"Work to provide flood lighting along other portions of the fenced border is going on apace," BSF IGP (Jammu frontier) Dilip Trivedi a group of visiting mediapersons near the Zero Line at Abdullian in R S Pura sector of Jammu and Kashmir last evening.
He said fencing along 80 km of the total of 187.5 km IB in Jammu has been completed and the whole project was likely to be finished by December, 2005.
Halogen lights have been installed on 35-feet high steel poles behind the fences, he said adding the poles are 60 to 70 feet from each another. Claiming that infiltration has come down to a "considerable low" with the completion of fencing along almost half of the border, the IGP said influx of militants from across the border would reduce to "zero" after the completion of the project in 2005.
Referring to some incidents of infiltration by Bangladeshis, he said the arrest of some of them was not a major problem.
"The most challenging aspect is the infiltration of armed terrorists and the troops have succeeded to check them because of fencing and flood lighting," Trivedi said.
The BSF officer did not rule out the possibility of concentration of armed terrorists on the other side of the border following pressure on them in the wake of the operation in Hill Kaka. "But our troops were ready to deal with them," he said. Bureau Report
Halogen lights have been installed on 35-feet high steel poles behind the fences, he said adding the poles are 60 to 70 feet from each another. Claiming that infiltration has come down to a "considerable low" with the completion of fencing along almost half of the border, the IGP said influx of militants from across the border would reduce to "zero" after the completion of the project in 2005.
Referring to some incidents of infiltration by Bangladeshis, he said the arrest of some of them was not a major problem.
"The most challenging aspect is the infiltration of armed terrorists and the troops have succeeded to check them because of fencing and flood lighting," Trivedi said.
The BSF officer did not rule out the possibility of concentration of armed terrorists on the other side of the border following pressure on them in the wake of the operation in Hill Kaka. "But our troops were ready to deal with them," he said. Bureau Report