The Border Security Force has intensified its vigilance with Bangladesh’s 856 km long international border with Bangladesh, but preventing cross -border infiltration remains an Hercules.
Amidst political unrest in Bangladesh, Tripura’s porous stretch continues to work as an illegal entrance for Bangladeshi citizens and Rohingya refugees, which enter the Indian mainland deeply.
Despite a commitment towards near—up monitoring and “zero-guspath”, human trafficking network thrives. Sources told NDTV that regular arrests in Tripura are almost crossing the daily limits.
The unique geography of Tripura only reduces this issue. About 98%of the 856 km border with Bangladesh, which surrounds the state from three sides, is fensure, but most of these thorny-wire structures, built a decade ago, committed suicide to wear and shed tears. A senior police officer said that long -term monsoon season, dense flora and uncontrolled marijuana development have been presented with large parts of fencing and ineffective for about seven months.
Furthermore, unlike India’s western border, many settlements in Tripura are dangerously close to the border. In some cases, villages are also beyond fencing, which have separated from the Indian region only 150 yards from the zero-point demarcation columns.
These close proximity makes it easy for smugglers and smugglers to take advantage of the gaps, combining with citizens during cross-limit transit.
The biggest challenge is that the area is in favor of the intruders, with villages practically touches the fence and dense vegetation covering the cover, making it a long battle.
In addition to geographical challenges, a small portion of the border population is considered complex in illegal activities, including human trafficking and smuggling, further complicating the efforts of BSF.
With the unstable situation in the neighboring Bangladesh and the threat from the western borders, the stakes never exceeded. State and central governments, in coordination with security agencies, should re -assure the realities of the land and create strategic reactions to plug these weaknesses.
The implications of infiltration are beyond demographic changes and fiscal stress; Uncontrolled infiltration is a direct national security threat.
Even as BSF, other security forces and intelligence units work together to thwart illegal entry, the intruders’ constant arrests only highlight how much the challenge is really standing.
