Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that borders will be more secure by Smart border fencing and will be put in place across 2026 km of border which is considered vulnerable.
“I understand that after introducing Comprehensive Integrated Border Managment System our borders will be more secure. We’ll introduce this technology across 2026 km of the border which is considered vulnerable. It’ll also reduce dependence on physical patrolling,” Singh told media.
Singh is on a day’s visit to state to inaugurate two pilot projects of “smart” border fencing built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) programme.
The two projects, each covering a 5.5 km-border stretch along the International Border in Jammu, are set to get a first-of-a-kind high-tech surveillance system that will create an invisible electronic barrier on land, water and even in air and underground, helping the Border Security Force (BSF) detect and foil infiltration bids in the most difficult terrains.
CIBMS involves deployment of a range of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies — thermal imagers, infra-red and laser-based intruder alarms that form an invisible land fence, aerostats for aerial surveillance, unattended ground sensors that can help detect intrusion bids through tunnels, radars, sonar systems to secure riverine borders, fibre-optic sensors and a command and control system that shall receive data from all surveillance device in real time.
