India to Clamp ‘Border Security Grid’: To Seal Frontier With Pakistan by 2018

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that India would completely seal its winding border with Pakistan by December 2018. The minister said the situation on the border would be continuously monitored. After the recent surgical strikes, India conceptualized 'Border Security Grid,' which will be put in place after taking inputs from all border states.

The proposed Border Security Grid has been designed in such a way that terrorist infiltrations become impossible. Rajnath Singh said that the decision comes in the wake of rising India-Pakistan tension after the September 18 attack on a military base in Jammu and Kashmir and the later surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC).

As part of the reviewing the border situation on Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarath and Jammu&Kashmir, Singh arrived Jaisalmer this morning. Amid rising tension in Indo-Pak ties, Union Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation with Home Ministers and senior officials of four states that border Pakistan. Singh chaired the meeting attended by Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal, Gujarat's Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Brij Raj Sharma, an official said.

Senior BSF officials were present at the meeting here which reviewed security arrangements on the border in the wake of tension between India and Pakistan after surgical strike by army on terror camps across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union Home Minister will also tour border areas of Rajasthan and visit outposts to assess the situation along the Indo-Pak border. Elaborate security arrangements have been made, Barmer Collector Matadeen Sharma said.

Source: IANS/ PTI