The authorities will fence alongside the entire 1,643-kilometer-long India-Myanmar border in one other step to enhance nation’s safety, Union Home Minister Amit Shah knowledgeable on Tuesday.
“The Modi government is committed to building impenetrable borders. It has decided to construct a fence along the entire 1643-kilometer-long Indo-Myanmar border…”, Amit Shah mentioned.
The fence will facilitate higher surveillance, a patrol monitor alongside the border will even be paved.
Out of the full border size, a ten km stretch in Moreh, Manipur, has already been fenced. Furthermore, two pilot initiatives of fencing via a Hybrid Surveillance System (HSS) are beneath execution.
They will fence a stretch of 1 km every in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. Additionally, fence works masking approx 20 km in Manipur have additionally been accepted, and the work will begin quickly.
Indo-Myanmar border presently has Free Movement Regime
The 1,643-km-long India-Myanmar border, which passes via Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, presently has FMR. It was carried out in 2018 as a part of India’s Act East coverage.
Fencing alongside the border has been a persistent demand of the Imphal Valley-based Meitei teams which have been alleging that tribal militants typically enter into India via the porous border.
The Meitei teams additionally allege that narcotics are being smuggled into India benefiting from the unfenced worldwide border.
With inputs from PTI
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