Border Security Force (BSF) Frontier Guwahati celebrates 58th raising day

GUWAHATI: Frontier BSF Guwahati and its Command SHQs and units celebrated the 58th Raising Day of Border Security Force. BSF is an elite border-guarding Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders. Raised on 1st December 1965 after the Indo-Pakistan War, BSF is the only Force of the nation with distinctly defined wartime as well as peacetime roles and has successfully proved its mettle in accomplishing every task assigned in times of war, peace and no-war-no-peace situations.

BSF is also tasked to ensure policing of border areas during peace and check trans-border crimes thereby inculcating a sense of security amongst the border population. BSF has 193 battalions, including 4 Disaster Management Battalions, with a strength of more than 2.65 lakh brave men and women. BSF is the world's largest border guarding force hailed as "India's First Line of Defence".

Guwahati Frontier has been assigned to guard the Indo-Bangladesh border in the states of WB and Assam covering 509 km of the international border. To secure the assigned international border between India and Bangladesh, 11 BSF battalions and one water wing with various types of watercraft are deployed at 145 BOPs under 03 Sector Headquarters.

The BSF faces varied types of challenges in securing the international borders because of the terrain, demography, social economy dynamics and indulgence of a few elements of border population of both India and Bangladesh intrans-border crimes in bordering districts of Coochbehar in West Bengal, Dhubri and South Salamara-Mankachar in Assam which fall under its jurisdiction. It is a matter of pride that despite facing various challenges of complex nature on the complex Indo-Bangladesh border, frontier Guwahati has performed its assigned tasks to the utmost satisfaction of all the Government of India, state governments and the border population.

During the period between January 2022 to till date Guwahati frontier has made, a total seizure worth approximately Rs 11.72 crore consisting of cattle heads, Phensedyl, Yaba Tablets, and ganja, on Indo-Bangladesh border under its jurisdiction, a press release said.

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