New Delhi: In a bid to curb unabated infiltration from Pakistan, India has set March 2022 as the deadline to complete work on the remaining 64.38 km unfenced border along the western frontier.
India has adopted a multi-pronged approach to curb cross-border infiltration India has sanctioned 2069.046 kilometres of border with Pakistan to be fenced in order to curb infiltration.
"Already 2004.666 kilometres of the border has been fenced. The remaining 64.38 km will be fenced by 2022," a senior Home Ministry official said.
India's 3,323-km-long (both land and riverine) border with Pakistan runs through Jammu and Kashmir (1,225 km, including 740 km of Line of Control), Rajasthan (1,037 km), Punjab (553 km) and Gujarat (508 km).
India has adopted a multi-pronged approach to curb cross-border infiltration which inter alia, includes the deployment of border guarding forces, erection of border fencing, and floodlighting.
According to sources, Home Minister Amit Shah has asked officials to adhere to the deadline for the completion of these multi-crore projects.
Fencing the border with Pakistan is one such policy of zero tolerance on terrorism being adopted by the Home Ministry.
"Deserts, mountains, forests, riverine terrain are some of the issues that create problem in the fencing work," the official added.
As many as 745 terrorists have been neutralized from 2016 till June this year in Jammu and Kashmir.
Government statistics in possession of ETV Bharat said that 322 terrorist attacks took place in 2016 in Jammu and Kashmir. Such incidents went up to 342 in 2017 and 614 in 2018.
The number of civilian casualties in the attacks was 15 in 2016, 40 in 2017 and 39 in 2018. 82 security personnel died in 2016, 80 in 2017 and 91 in 2018.
Similarly, the Home Ministry has also set December 2020 as the deadline for fencing work along the India Bangladesh border.
Out of the sanctioned length of 3326.14 km along the Indo-Bangladesh border, a total of 2804.013 km has already been fenced. "The remaining 169.64 km of border will be fenced by December 2020," the Home Ministry official said.
India and Bangladesh share a border of 4,096 km.
The Home Ministry has already initiated the deployment of laser fences and technology-enabled barriers to plug vulnerable gaps along both these borders.
"In the case of J&K, the external dimension is much more pronounced than the internal dimension. We have a very clear cut policy based on which have been resolving insurgencies.
"The government takes a comprehensive view of every conflict and undertakes political, economic, social and diplomatic measures to resolve it. The Army's role is to create conducive conditions for such initiatives by the government," he said.
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