Government will launch the Smart Border Project and make the entire borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan impenetrable. Mr Shah was addressing the Border Security Force Investiture Ceremony and Rustamji Memorial Lecture in New Delhi today. He said that work is progressing towards creating an impregnable border security grid within the next year by integrating all kinds of technologies under the Smart Border concept. He said the Ministry will soon introduce a Smart Border Project equipped with drones, radars, modern cameras, and other advanced technologies. The Home Minister said that once this initiative begins, the work of the Border Security Force will become significantly easier and stronger. He emphasized that India must adopt new strategies to address cyber threats, hybrid warfare, and drone-based challenges.
The Home Minister said that under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the Government has resolved not only to stop infiltration, but also to identify and expel every single infiltrator from the country, and will not allow unnatural demographic change. Mr Shah said that the BSF must prevent conspiracies aimed at altering demographics through infiltration. He said that governments in Tripura, Assam, and West Bengal now follow policies that clearly oppose illegal infiltration. The Minister said that the time has come to decisively stop infiltration that has continued unchecked for years.
Mr Shah also said that due to the Government’s determined efforts, the five-decade-old problem of Naxalismhas now been effectively eliminated from India. He said that security policy should not merely aim to contain problems, but to eradicate them completely. He urged the BSF to adopt the same determined approach in tackling infiltration. The Home Minister that the Border Security Force started in 1965 with 25 battalions and limited resources, has now become the world’s largest border guarding force with a strength of nearly two lakh 70 thousand personnel. Mr Shah said, government has extended the BSF’s jurisdiction to 50 kilometers from up to 15 kilometers. He said, the Government has also decided that it will not only stop infiltration, but will handpick each and every infiltrator and sent them out of the country.
