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New Delhi is chalking out elaborate plans to fortify the 1,640-km Indo-Myanmar border by deploying additional forces and using the latest technology.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs hopes to check by the move the cross-border movement of militants and drugs in the states of Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, that share their borders with the neighbouring country.
Revealing this, the Director-General of Assam Rifles Lt Gen. Paramjit Singh told reporters on October 12 that the problems faced by security forces at border towns like Moreh (in Manipur) and Parwah (in south Mizoram) and in Tirap and Changlang districts of Arunachal Pradesh were discussed with Home Ministry officials recently. He was speaking on the first day of the Assam Rifles Commanders’ Conference.
During the discussions, the paramilitary force pressed for the need to introduce information technology (IT) as part of the “new look border management plan”. Gen. Singh said the ministry had advocated the need to build an “IT roadmap” to assist in guarding the border and in developing border towns like Moreh.
“Once the plan to guard the entire border with Myanmar materialises, then things will be different,” he said.
According to him, the plans should be in place in the next four to five years.
He also said that New Delhi had Myanmar’s cooperation “in raids on Indian insurgent camps in that country.”
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