MALDA, Jan. 7: The inspector general, south Bengal frontier BSF, Mr CV Murlidhar, held a meeting with senior BSF officials in Kolkata on Monday to review the border situation and its "security gap" owing to lack of fencing.
Mr PS Tomar, DIG of BSF in Malda sector, who attended the meeting, said that they were asked to look for the existing "security gap" along the border where barbed wire fencing could not be completed due to various reasons.
“It was discussed that the government already allotted sufficient funds to the central public works department (CPWD) and asked the department to finish the fencing work along the India-Bangladesh border soon to "fill in the gaps” for security reasons,” said Mr PS Tomar. According to the administrative status report of fencing along the India-Bangladesh border, a large part, nearly 32 km of its border is unfenced between Tilason and Pannapur in Habibpur and Bamongola block areas in Malda district. This stretch has been identified as low lying areas by the CPWD officials. According to the land acquisition department, though the CPWD had submitted proposals to district administration for land acquisition for the construction of fencing in but it was finally cancelled a few years ago.
In other neighbouring areas between main border pillar no. 218 (MP) and 219 (6R), identified as Anuradhapur to Kaliabari, the 4.5 km stretch, the land acquisition department has finally acquired the required land and handed over to them last year. The construction work for fencing is yet to begin. In Malda, construction of fencing work was started in nineties in Malda but still 40 percent of its total length of border is yet to fenced. n SNS
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