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OPERATION SUDARSHAN
- BSF launches operation ‘Sudarshan’
REASONS
- The Border Security Force (BSF) has launched a massive exercise, code named ‘Sudarshan’, to fortify the ‘antiinfiltration grid’ along the Pakistan border in Punjab and Jammu.
- The exercise will see the entire BSF’s senior field brass, thousands of troops and machinery being deployed in these forward areas.
NOTES
- The operation was launched on July 1 and will cover the entire over the 1,000-km length of the India-Pakistan International Border. While Jammu shares about 485-km of the border with Pakistan, about 553-km of the front is in Punjab. It further runs down towards Rajasthan and Gujarat on India’s western flank
OBJECTIVE
- Multiple patrols are being undertaken to strengthen Indian defence positions and locations for launching offensive action at these borders from the point of view of sealing the front against infiltration of terrorists, drug mules and also to ensure a befitting reply to unprovoked firing from the Pakistani side.
DRUG TRADE
- Many terror groups smuggle drugs to India to finance their activities
NOTES
- The security situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved on multiple fronts and the net infiltration from across the border has reduced by 43 per cent after a strike was carried out on terror camps in Pakistan, the home ministry claimed in the Lok Sabha “
- Due to concerted and synergised efforts of security forces, the security situation in the state has witnessed an improvement in the first half of this year over the corresponding period of 2018. Net infiltration has reduced by 43 per cent,” he said.
- The minister said the central government has adopted a policy of zero tolerance towards crossborder infiltration.
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