GUWAHATI: The Army’s Eastern Command headquarters have taken over the safety of the India-Myanmar border, overlaying four northeastern states, and plans to step up the presence of Assam Rifles troops, the only pressure in this facet of the country, in border areas — taking them beyond areas with human settlements to far flung areas a lot nearer to the world border.
The India-Myanmar border — alongside Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram — is a treacherous and porous boundary offering simple passage to militants, arms and drug smugglers, and human traffickers.
“As a part of the process of strengthening the India-Myanmar border, Assam Rifles has taken a variety of steps to increase its presence in the far flung border areas of the northeast,” defence PRO Colonel C Konwer said. “Assam Rifles is now in the strategy of occupying number of further locations all alongside the India-Myanmar Border,” he added.
For the plan to materialize, a source said, it could take a while. “It would wish a lot of infrastructure to be built for the troops to man the border on website online. The border is completely porous and the government should get started fencing positive locations, which might make it a little more uncomplicated for the troops deployed,” the source added. The defence PRO agreed. “The unfenced border alongside an excessively tough terrain items an enormous problem for the defense force guarding it,” Konwer said.
While the Assam Rifles is administered by means of the Union house ministry, its operations are controlled by means of the Army. The pressure has been handling a twin function — of counter-insurgency operations in the northeastern states and keeping an eye on the world border with Myanmar.
Guarding the open 1,643-km-long border has for lengthy been a bone of contention between the defence and residential ministries. While MHA wanted the border be passed over to both ITBP or the BSF, the Army’s stand has been in favour of Assam Rifles. For the Army, having a purely border guarding pressure like ITBP or BSF at the border, and the Assam Rifles, which operates in Army taste, for handling counter-insurgency operations would reason serious operational coordination problems.
A parliamentary standing committee on ‘Border Security: Capacity Building and Institutions’ presented in Rajya Sabha in March noted that “the gaps in the deployment (alongside Indo-Myanmar border) are vast and are at risk of be exploited by means of the insurgents to carry out sabotage activities towards the country and its safety forces. The Committee could also be constrained to be informed that the machine of FMR (loose motion regime) in conjunction with porous and unfenced border is being exploited by means of the anti-national parts for unhindered motion of insurgent groups around the border.”
The FMR allows other folks of both nations, who proportion traditional and cultural ties and for agriculture, to commute up to 16 km on all sides of the border.
The Centre had initiated a piece of fencing of about 10 km of the border at Moreh in Manipur in 2010, however the work was then stopped due to agitation by means of local inhabitants 3 years later.
The India-Myanmar border — alongside Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram — is a treacherous and porous boundary offering simple passage to militants, arms and drug smugglers, and human traffickers.
“As a part of the process of strengthening the India-Myanmar border, Assam Rifles has taken a variety of steps to increase its presence in the far flung border areas of the northeast,” defence PRO Colonel C Konwer said. “Assam Rifles is now in the strategy of occupying number of further locations all alongside the India-Myanmar Border,” he added.
For the plan to materialize, a source said, it could take a while. “It would wish a lot of infrastructure to be built for the troops to man the border on website online. The border is completely porous and the government should get started fencing positive locations, which might make it a little more uncomplicated for the troops deployed,” the source added. The defence PRO agreed. “The unfenced border alongside an excessively tough terrain items an enormous problem for the defense force guarding it,” Konwer said.
While the Assam Rifles is administered by means of the Union house ministry, its operations are controlled by means of the Army. The pressure has been handling a twin function — of counter-insurgency operations in the northeastern states and keeping an eye on the world border with Myanmar.
Guarding the open 1,643-km-long border has for lengthy been a bone of contention between the defence and residential ministries. While MHA wanted the border be passed over to both ITBP or the BSF, the Army’s stand has been in favour of Assam Rifles. For the Army, having a purely border guarding pressure like ITBP or BSF at the border, and the Assam Rifles, which operates in Army taste, for handling counter-insurgency operations would reason serious operational coordination problems.
A parliamentary standing committee on ‘Border Security: Capacity Building and Institutions’ presented in Rajya Sabha in March noted that “the gaps in the deployment (alongside Indo-Myanmar border) are vast and are at risk of be exploited by means of the insurgents to carry out sabotage activities towards the country and its safety forces. The Committee could also be constrained to be informed that the machine of FMR (loose motion regime) in conjunction with porous and unfenced border is being exploited by means of the anti-national parts for unhindered motion of insurgent groups around the border.”
The FMR allows other folks of both nations, who proportion traditional and cultural ties and for agriculture, to commute up to 16 km on all sides of the border.
The Centre had initiated a piece of fencing of about 10 km of the border at Moreh in Manipur in 2010, however the work was then stopped due to agitation by means of local inhabitants 3 years later.
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