Border Security Force will induct 20,000 personnel this year to deal with manpower shortage and strengthen the frontiers of the country, BSF Director General Subhash Joshi said today.
Stating that BSF inducted 15,000 personnel last year, Joshi told reporters at the Sutarkandi border outpost (BoP) in Assam's Karimganj district, "This year we plan to have another 20,000 new personnel inducted into BSF."
He said that 90 per cent of the international border with Pakistan has been fenced in the western sector and fencing has also been carried out along the India-Bangladesh border.
Joshi said a proposal has been sent to the government for setting up additional BoPs along the Indo-Bangladesh border and it was under consideration.
Earlier, the BSF DG inspected the Indo-Bangladesh border at Karimganj and also held a high-level meeting with senior officers of the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB).
BSF Inspector General (Mizoram-Cachar Frontier) A C Thaplial and Deputy Inspector General (Operations) U C Hazarika attended the meeting that lasted 40 minutes.
BGB was represented by Brigadier General A B M Ghulam Mustafa and Lt Colonels Mohammad Rafikul Azad and Mohammad Khalid Mahmud.
