In Assam, sluice gates, pontoon bridges, and aerostats will be used to improve the security on the 60 km long stretch in riverine areas on the Indo-Bangla border in Assam and the government is planning to seal close it by next year that is till June 2017. Also high definition security cameras will be installed to put a full stop on the smuggling of cattle and drugs. Assam government in collaboration with the Border Security Force will be working on this project. This is being done with the help of the experts from the IITs so that the BSF personnel can easily monitor what is happening across the rivers.
India shares a total of 4096 kms frontier border with Bangladesh out of which 284 km is in Assam. Out of this further, 224 km is fenced and now the rest around the river Brahmaputra will be monitored through this project.
“A smart operational command and control room will be created that will have all the machine and human surveillance feeds coming to it. The control room will be connected with optic fibre so that it can collect data from the ground and relay it up to Guwahati and further to the BSF headquarters in Delhi,” an official said. He further added, “An assortment of high resolution cameras, radars, infra red sensors and hand-held thermal imagers is being planned to be deployed to ensure that the border is sealed and that any breach is quickly reported. A special team is working on this,”
