Early Times Report
Tangmarg, Aug 19: Army today said the counter-infiltration grid along the Line of Control (LoC) has been made strengthened and intelligence coordination between various agencies improved to curb attempts by militants to infiltrate into Kashmir.
"We have made our counter-infiltration grid much more robust. First of all, it has evolved over the years and secondly, we have made some changes this year. We have improved the coordination with regard to intelligence. The surveillance grid has also been made pretty deft and smartened enough to be sure that we do not miss anything. "Also, we have made some changes in the troop deployment - to put added tiers, to take advantage where the terrain is offering. So far, it is working very well. By all estimates, it has been zero infiltration and I hope it works like that. And actually it is the hard work of the soldiers on the ground," General Officer Commanding of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, Lt Gen Subrata Saha told reporters here. Saha said there has been an increase in the intensity of infiltration attempts from across the LoC this year. "There is an increase in the intensity of infiltration attempts. Since May 27 till now, there have been 11 attempts. 19 terrorists have been eliminated trying to infiltrate. And apart from that the number of reconnaissance also is quite a bit," he said. The army commander said militants using social media, to encourage youth to join their ranks, is a new dimension, but there hasn't been an abrupt increase in their numbers. "This social media picture is a new dimension. It gets picked by electronic media from where print media picks it up and in that process it is getting a spin, a hype much more than the reality. People had said that the recruitment would increase because of this, but nothing like that has happened. The figures are similar to last year," he said. |
