Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated an advanced electronic surveillance system to secure India’s unfenced riverine border with Bangladesh in lower Assam’s Dhubri district.
After inaugurating the high-tech project in the presence of chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajnath said fencing of the India-Bangladesh border in Bengal could not be completed yet because of delay in land acquisition by the Bengal government.
“I had a meeting with the Bengal government on this issue one year ago and they had assured their cooperation but they are yet to give us the land. The delay was on their part,” he said.
Rajnath told reporters that the new project, Border Electronically-Dominated QRT Interception Technique (BOLD-QIT) under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System, would equip unfenced areas along the rive-rine border with sensors, enabling troops to take prompt action against intrusion.