Smart fencing to seal Karimganj town sector of India-Bangladesh border

The Assam government has taken the decision to seal the unfenced stretch of 4.5 km along the India-Bangladesh border on the Karimganj town sector via smart fencing – powered with advanced technological surveillance and alarm gadgetry.
Smart fencing to seal Karimganj town sector of India-Bangladesh border

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GUWAHATI: The Assam government has taken the decision to seal the unfenced stretch of 4.5 km along the India-Bangladesh border on the Karimganj
 town sector via smart fencing – powered with advanced technological surveillance and alarm gadgetry.

The physical fencing in the Karimganj town sector of the India-Bangladesh border couldn't be completed following an objection raised by the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh). According to international border rules, fencing on either side of the border should be erected 150 yards away from the main point. However, in the Karimganj town sector of the international border, if the fencing is erected 150 yards away from the main point in the Kuchiara River, a portion of Karimganj town will fall on the other side of the fencing. According to sources, to save Karimganj town, the State government wanted some relaxations of the rules. However, the BGB objected to the move; and fencing in the stretch came to a grinding halt. To unlock the logjam, the Government of India will have to sit across the table with its Bangladesh counterpart.

Till that becomes a reality, the Home department wants to seal the unfenced Karimganj town sector of the international border with advanced technological smart fencing. The technology involves electro-optical devices like visible-light cameras and infrared sensors to detect illegal border crossing of any sort.

Sources also informed that apart from smart fencing, speed boats with minimum intervals will be kept on the Indian part of the Kuchiara River. In the event of any intrusion, the sensors will give a signal alerting the speed boats concerned to act.

Already this system of smart fencing has been put in service along the India-Bangladesh reverine border in the Brahmaputra in 55-km Dhubri sector.

According to sources, still now 1.6 per cent of the international border with Bangladesh in the Assam sector is yet to be fenced. The total length of the Assam-Bangladesh border is 263 km – 143 km on land and 120 km riverine.

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