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'Infiltration from Bangladesh impacting
demography'
Friday October 21, 2011 09:40:38 PM,
IANS
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Shillong:
Infiltration from Bangladesh is posing a demographic threat due to
vast stretches of the India-Bangladesh border being unfenced, a
top police officer said Friday.
"Infiltration is still taking place because of the unfenced
border," Sudesh Kumar, Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector
General (Assam-Meghalaya Frontier), told journalists here.
Kumar said that due to opposition from villagers, about 130 km of
India's border with Bangladesh in the Jaintia Hills sector alone
has not been fenced and the area remains vulnerable to
infiltration.
"We have identified vulnerable areas where we are conducting joint
patrolling in those sensitive areas," he added.
Meghalaya share a 443 km international border with Bangladesh.
Kumar said that there was an urgent need to fence the entire
stretch of India's border with Bangladesh to prevent infiltration
and cross-border terrorism.
On Thursday, the BSF arrested an ULFA "captain", Dergrah Saronia
alias Ananda Das, after he infiltrated from Bangladesh to India
via the West Garo Hills. Saronia, a member of the ULFA central
committee, was arrested from the Chandabui area.
Kumar also said that violence in the northeast had decreased
mainly because of the meeting between union Home Minister P.C.
Chidambaram, BSF chief Raman Srivastava and Border Guard
Bangladesh chief Maj. Gen. Anwar Hussain when a Border Management
Coordinated Plan was formulated.
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