Srinagar, Jan 26: Centre has decided to redeploy the Border Security Force at the borders and utilize the services of central reserve police force for internal security duties in Jammu and Kashmir, BSF inspector general G S Gill said here today.
"Government of India has taken a policy decision whereby
CRPF has been selected as the main force to fight insurgency
and BSF to guard the borders to further strengthen the
frontiers of the country", gill told reporters after unfurling
the national tricolour at the historic Lal Chowk here.
He said the process will be set in motion this year but
it had not yet been decided in which sector BSF will be
reinducted first.
Official sources said initially eight battalions of CRPF
will take over from BSF to fight insurgency in the state.
Later, it will gradually relieve BSF from internal security
duties and don the mantle to fight insurgency in the state.
The process will take few months time, he added.
Expressing satisfaction over the peaceful passing off of
Republic Day celebrations, Gill said apart from the usual
militant threats, this year there were specific warnings
about vehicles being prepared for fidayeen (suicide) attacks.
"In fact we even reacted to two or three specific reports
and in one case actually recovered an IED (improvised
explosive device) which was supposed to be in a car but was
found on the roadside", the IG BSF said adding "we have taken
all the threats seriously and have managed to keep the day
peaceful".
Bureau Report
