the cup is three-quarters full!!
***According to the latest information, about a 65-km stretch along the
Asom-Bangladesh border is yet to be fenced.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What do our friends all bent out of shape for ULFA not protecting Assam
borders
or for helping find work for B'deshis in Assam react to this news? In
twenty seven years since Assam went up in flames over this issue, the
Owners and Saviors of Assam -- the GoI, has done what and how much to
protect the borders, while letting the BSF go unchecked in its
dereliction of duty of bribe taking in exchange for infiltrators to
sneak into Assam?
But I won't hold my breath for an answer.
cm
Only five km Bangla border fenced in '06?
By a Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, March 4: Fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Asom
sector seems to be abysmally slow although it is an admitted fact
that the international border with Bangladesh is marked by high
degree of porosity, thereby making the efforts to check illegal
cross-border activities a challenging task.
"The main problem is illegal migration into India from Bangladesh,"
sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs said quoting its annual
document for the year 2005-2006.
According to the latest information, about a 65-km stretch along the
Asom-Bangladesh border is yet to be fenced. The unfenced stretch
along the international border in Asom was about 70 km in early 2006,
the MHA data said. That means that only 5 km border fencing was done
in 2006.
According to the data provided by Asom Revenue and Assam Accord
Implementation Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman in the floor of the State
Assembly last week, 150.607 km of the 267.30-km Asom-Bangladesh
border has been fenced so far by the Assam Public Works Department,
one of the seven agencies all over the country that have been
entrusted by the Centre to complete the fencing work along the
3,286-km-long Indo-Bangladesh border.
The minister said that the fencing work was in progress in another
stretch of 26.358 km border, which was targeted to be completed by
March, while the work in the remaining 37.909 km was yet to start.
However, the MHA's annual report last year said that barring the
400-km-stretch along Indo-Bangla border in Mizoram, the entire border
fencing project was expected to be completed by the fiscal 2006-2007.
Another cause of concern along the Indo-Bangladesh border is its
riverine stretch measuring about 107 km. The Comptroller and Auditor
General (CAG), in his annual report three years back, had expressed
his concern over the unsealed part of the riverine border. "With the
riverine stretch of the border left unfenced, the primary objective
of fighting illegal migration stands defeated," he said.
However, there is no river police to guard the riverine border in
Asom, said the minister. According to him, it is only the river wing
of the BSF that covers the area.
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