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Enhancing border security on top of BSF agenda

Enhancing border security on top of BSF agenda
Director General, BSF, KK Sharma (2R) offers sweets to the Pakistan Rangers at the Attari border on Saturday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Tribune News Service

Attari, April 2

After the Pathankot infiltration, the prime item on the agenda of the Border Security Force (BSF) is to strengthen security on the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. Director General of BSF KK Sharma said this during his maiden two-day visit to the Punjab border after assuming charge on March 1.He and his wife Renu Sharma, president of the BSF Wives Welfare Association, flagged off the newly inducted golf carts that will be used by elderly people/differently abled guests at Joint Check Post Attari.Later, they witnessed the high-pitched Beating Retreat ceremony and offered sweets to officials of Pakistan Rangers.Sharma said both technical and manual vigilance has been enhanced at the areas in Punjab sharing the border with Pakistan.“After Dinanagar and Pathankot attacks, our prime concern is to enhance security at the border. We identified the vulnerable points and plugged the gaps to check infiltration. We are introducing laser and infra-red walls along the fencing. Apart from these, manpower from other battalions has been deployed on the Punjab borders.“The intelligence agencies’ mechanism too has been revamped. The results can be seen in the recent instances in which our vigilant officials gunned down four Pakistani smugglers,” he said.Sharma said that the spectators’ gallery being renovated should be dedicated to the public by January 26, 2017. At Amritsar, he met all DIGs and Commandants of the Punjab Frontier to gather information about the operational activities being undertaken in the area. Later, he visited border outpost Mahwa.