Indo-Bangladesh border to be fenced

NEW DELHI, MAY 23. Faced with sustained illegal migration from across the border affecting the demographic composition, especially in eastern India, the Government has decided to fence the entire Indo-Bangladesh border at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,334 crores, a Home Ministry spokesman said here today.

The work on the project covering five border States - Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Mizoram and Tripura - would be completed by March 2007, he said adding that 2,429 km. of border fencing and 797 km. of construction of border roads were proposed to be undertaken.

The fencing would be maximum along the border with West Bengal with 1,021 km., followed by Tripura (736 km.), Mizoram (400 km.), Meghalaya (198 km.) and Assam (71.5 km.), he said.

The existing project for the construction of border roads and border fencing at a revised cost estimate of Rs. 1,042 crores is expected to be completed by March next year, the spokesman said.

The spokesman said the Government would also strengthen the deployment of the BSF along the border.

- PTI

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