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• 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

1. Canada-USA : 8,893 km
2. Russia-Kazakhstan : 6,846 km
3. Argentina-Chile : 5,300 km
4. Mongolia-China : 4,677 km
5. India-Bangladesh : 4,096 km
6. Russia-China : 3,645 km
7. Russia-Mongolia : 3,543 km
8. Brazil-Bolivia : 3,400 km
9. China-India : 3,380 km
10. 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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