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| BSF put on alert | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Dec 18: The BSF is on high alert along the border with Pakistan in the wake of the heightened security scenario following the Mumbai terror attacks, chief of the force, M L Kumawat, said on Thursday.
"We are highly alert at our borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. We have heightened our vigilance and alertness," Director General Border Security Force (BSF) M L Kumawat told reporters in New Delhi today.
"I can assure the country that we are on much alert than ever before. The force is rising to the occasion," Kumawat said after inaugurating an electronic exhibition of the technical branch of the paramilitary force.
Kumawat, however, refuted reports which claimed that infiltration across the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders has increased.
"I would not agree that infiltration along these two borders which we guard has increased," he said.
The BSF had earlier said it had received reports that Pakistan Rangers have augmented their personnel at Border Out Posts, apart from increased patrolling, and other inputs of movement of forces at the border.
The BSF guards the 4,096-km-long Indo-Bangladesh border and 3,268-km-long border with Pakistan which include about 2,526 km of International Border and 742-km Line of Control.
The DG also said the force headquarters in the national capital are in constant touch with their frontier headquarters across the country and various other Border Out Posts (BOP's).
The BSF has deployed about 45,000 personnel (45 battalions) on the entire India-Pakistan border from Gujarat to Jammu and Kashmir out of its two-lakh plus force.
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