BSF: 5.5k security cameras to be installed at Pak, B’desh borders
The Border Security Force will install 5,500 security cameras along the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh and the central government has “sanctioned ₹30 crore for this procurement”, BSF chief Pankaj Kumar Singh said on Wednesday.
Addressing the force’s annual press conference in Delhi, the BSF director general said that the force has been sanctioned ₹30 crore for surveillance cameras, drones, and monitoring gadgets.
“We have got around 5,500 CCTV surveillance cameras and some other gadgets and the Union home ministry has sanctioned a ₹30-crore fund for this
procurement,” Singh said, adding that these cameras will be installed in the front areas, both at borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Terming the use of drones from across the border as a “major challenge” for which they don’t have a “foolproof solution yet”, Singh said that the BSF has developed “lowcost” technology solutions for monitoring infiltration, drone activity and other crimes at
India’s border with Pakistan.“we will find solutions in the times to come and we are increasingly detecting and killing the drones,” the BSF director general added.
There has been a spate in drone sightings with Pakistan dropping weapons and narcotics in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. “We shot down 16 drones along the Pakistan front this year compared to the one brought down in this region last year,” he said.
According to the BSF, 114 drone sightings were made along Pakistan front (both international border and Line of Control along Indo-pakistan border) last year while the number this year( till November 10) was 218.