The paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) is ready to open more than 500 new Border Out Posts (BOP) in order to check terrorist’s infiltration and cross-border movement across the Indian borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, its special director general, Arvind Ranjan, said Monday.
';We have 1,300 BOPs in international border areas of Punjab, Rajasthan and Assam. As many as, 509 are to be opened within two years to keep a check on infiltration,'; Ranjan said while he was addressing officers and other dignitaries during the Raising Day parade of BSF.
The ceremony was postponed from Dec 1 following the death of former prime minister I.K. Gujral last month on Nov 30.
';The BSF secures over 6300 kilometers of the international border with Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's also deployed alongside the Indian Army on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir,' he added.
Apart from being deployed on UN missions, the BSF has developed the skills for undertaking the various tasks of border management, counter-insurgency operations and maintaining internal security with time.
'Presently, the BSF is deployed in anti-Naxal (Maoist) operations in Chattisgarh and Orissa,' he said.
During the ceremony, different contingents of the force, including a women';s contingent, took part in the parade, at which Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde took the salute.
In addition to that, four BSF personnel were awarded the President';s Police Medal for gallantry and eight personnel the President';s Police Medal for distinguished service.
-With inputs from IANS
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