New Delhi, December 19

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the government would provide enhanced infrastructure and logistical facilities at border posts where women personnel had been deployed under the command of various frontier guarding forces.After taking salute at the 53rd Raising Day of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at its camp here, Rajnath said it was essential to have “gender-friendly” facilities at these far-flung areas for women as the present support system was deficient.Apart from SSB, BSF (deployed along Pakistan and Bangladesh borders) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (along Sino-India frontier) has deployed its women personnel as part of their border guarding charter. While the forces have upgraded or created new infrastructure facilities at the border posts after women combatants were posted at these locations for the first time a few years ago, reports from the field units of these forces have desired that much more needs to be done.Rajnath said his ministry would give a serious thought to a pending proposal of SSB to have its own dedicated intelligence wing to aid its ground troops mandated to secure Indian borders with Nepal and Bhutan. “Despite not having a dedicated intelligence wing, you have been quite successful in your operations along the two borders you guard,” he said. — PTI