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Thursday, November 27, 2014

BSF goes hi-tech a "laser wall"to check infiltration of the India-Pakistan border.

BSF goes hi-tech to check infiltration

 
The Border Security Force is using Underground Sensors (UGS), a "laser wall" and "smart fencing", a system comprising modern surveillance equipment, along the unfenced areas of the India-Pakistan border to check infiltration.

The developments came to light on the sidelines of the BSF's annual press conference held on the force's 50th anniversary. The BSF was constituted on December 1, 1965, and the force claims that they are currently the world's largest border guarding force.

"Smart fencing" has been developed by the BSF's Research and Development (R&D) team, while the UGS and the "laser wall" have been procured. About 85 per cent of the India-Pakistan border is fenced, while about 70 to 80 kilometre along the border in Gujarat remains unfenced, according to the BSF.

"Fencing is not in some areas, because of the non-acquisition of the land for it,” said BSF Director General DK Pathak.

He said there had been no infiltration by militants along the International Boundary (IB) in Jammu for three years.

The UGS is placed two to three feet below the ground. "When a person steps over it, the UGS sends an alarm to the screen of the system at the control centre. The person who is watching the screen sends someone to examine what has caused the alarm to go off," said a BSF source.

"Smart fencing" consists of three surveillance equipment - the LORROS, Battle Field Surveillance Radar and Hand Held Thermal Imagers. "The company commander sitting at his office can examine if anyone is approaching the zero line (the International Boundary) and has crossed it. It has been installed along a four kilometre stretch along the IB in Punjab and an equally long stretch in Jammu," said Pathak, adding that "laser wall" was being used along the IB in Jammu. "If anyone passes through the wall, it sounds an alarm," he said.

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    Underground Sensors are placed two to three feet below the ground. "When a person steps over it, the UGS sends an alarm to the screen of the system at the control centre," said a BSF source
 
    Smart fencing consists of three surveillance equipment. "The company commander sitting at his office can examine if anyone is approaching the zero line (the International Boundary) and has crossed it," said BSF Director General DK Pathak
 
    Laser wall is being used along the IB in Jammu. "If anyone passes through the wall, it sounds an alarm," Pathak said



http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20141127/nation.htm#22

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