Border Fence
BGB, BSF carry out joint inspection
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday made a joint inspection of 21 patches of the border in West Tripura district where India proposes to construct a single-row fencing.
BSF sources said although 80 percent of the 856 km border with Bangladesh in Tripura had been fenced to check infiltration and smuggling.
Sixty-one patches of the border in the state could not be fenced due to resistance of local people for possible damage to their properties including houses, temples and water bodies, they said.
A double-row barbed wire fencing was constructed 150 yards away from the zero line of the border according to the Indira-Mujib pact singed in 1974.
BGB officials said India's proposal to construct the single row fencing near the zero line would be placed before Bangladesh government for a decision.
It was likely that another meeting between BSF and BGB would be held next month for review of the progress.
The BSF, which is the nodal agency for construction of barbed wire fencing, has set a target to complete the fencing by the next year.
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