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India to seal border with Pak fully by 2018
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asserted that India will completely seal its border with Pakistan by December 2018.
​Jaisalmer (Rajasthan): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asserted that India will completely seal its border with Pakistan by December 2018.
Talking to reporters here after a meeting to review the situation on the border in the wake of heightened tension with Pakistan, Rajnath Singh said the plan to seal the border will be implemented in a time-bound manner with the process being periodically monitored at multiple levels.
"The Home Ministry has set a target of fully sealing the Indo-Pakistan border by December 2018. To achieve this target, the action plan prepared is fully time bound and the implementation will be fully monitored periodically -- monthly and quarterly," Singh said.
He said monitoring will be done at the level of Home Ministry as also at the level of state governments and the Border Security Force (BSF).
"We have given special emphasis on monitoring, because by December 2018, we want to achieve the target of fully sealing the Indo-Pakistan border," said Singh, adding that technological help will be taken to seal off the riverine sections of the border.
Chairing the meet where representatives of states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir were present, Rajnath Singh sought the active participation of the four bordering states to secure the international border with Pakistan by putting physical and non-physical barriers.
Rajnath Singh said a new concept, "Border Security Grid", would be put in place and the border states have given their suggestions on it.
"On that basis, we will give a final shape to this Border Security Grid and the central government will issue guidelines in this regard to the respective state governments," he added. The meeting was attended by Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Gujarat Home Minister Pradeepsinh Jadeja. Chief Secretaries of Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir were also present.
The decision to seal border with Pakistan has come in the wake of heightened tension with Pakistan since the September 18 terror attack on an Indian Army camp at Uri in Jammu & Kashmir and the surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) by the army.
