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Infiltration from Bangladesh has to stop at all costs: BSF DG

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

"We have to clamp down on illegal infiltration at all costs. The challenge is to optimally use our manpower in the difficult terrain of this border aided by surveillance equipment like satellite imagery and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," outgoing BSF Director General U K Bansal told journalists before the forces' raising day on December 1.

Bansal's tenure as BSF commander ends tomorrow.

The chief of the country's second largest paramilitary force said similar measures will also be taken along the other frontier BSF guards-- Pakistan-- to keep a check on infiltration and smuggling of narcotics and arms.

"The force has decided to enhance its abilities along the borders (Pakistan and Bangaldesh) and the deployed manpower will be taking the help of surveillance equipments and additional intelligence to strengthen our abilities on these two frontiers," he said.

 

  

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First Published: Nov 29 2012 | 9:25 PM IST

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