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The news
- The ‘rickety’ barbed wires along the Pakistan and Bangladesh border are being replaced with meshed fence made of steel.
- BSF has been tasked to ensure that the fence is installed in a time-bound manner.
- Cost – Rs. 2 crore per kilometre
- The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) is implementing the project and the contract has been given to a firm called AON Fencing & Gates, headquartered in Ireland.
What is the problem with old fencing?
- Fencing at most places has become old.
- It could be easily cut with cutters and other heavy tools – increased infiltration.
- The new anti-cut fencing will be more effective.
- Currently a pilot project has been sanctioned at a cost of ₹14.3 crore at Lathitila in Assam’s Silchar district.
- The uncut single-row fence, with loops of concertina wires on top, is being erected at a 60-km border stretch near Amritsar in Punjab too.
Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS)
- There are treacherous areas and riverine tracts which could not be fenced.
- CIBMS proposes creation of laser or virtual walls.
- Virtual walls will be useful for riverine patches and mountainous terrains which otherwise cannot be fenced through traditional mechanisms
- The pilot project of CIBMS has already been completed in the Jammu region and the feedback has been positive.
- Drones are often used by both India and Pakistan for conducting surveillance across the border. But of late, Pakistan has started sending load-carrying drones that carry arms, ammunition and drugs.
Longest land borders in World
- Canada-USA : 8,893 km
- Russia-Kazakhstan : 6,846 km
- Argentina-Chile : 5,300 km
- Mongolia-China : 4,677 km
- India-Bangladesh : 4,096 km
- Russia-China : 3,645 km
- Russia-Mongolia : 3,543 km
- Brazil-Bolivia : 3,400 km
- China-India : 3,380 km
- USA-Mexico : 3,141 km
- USA – Canada border is the longest international border in the world between two countries.
- It is 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi) long, of which 2,475 kilometres (1,538 mi) is Canada’s border with Alaska.
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