Guarding India’s Border with Pakistan can be challenging even when the bullets are not flying. Physical barriers have been put up along 3,006 km of the India-Pakistan border and work is on to complete a final 120 km stretch to prevent infiltration by terrorists, cattle thieves and drug smugg­lers.

However, it is still physically patrolled by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, who count on a small number of hand-held thermal imagers (HHTIs) to spot intruders. A manpower crunch means troopers work 16 to 18-hour shifts. In recent years, smugglers and terrorists have taken to tunneling to infiltrate.

This is what makes the home ministry’s Rs 22 crore pilot project for a Comprehensive Integrated Border Management Solution (CIBM) so radical.

The project, strung along two 6 km stretches of the border in Jammu, was inaugurated by home minister Rajnath Singh on September 17. Read More

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