Issues are manifold including local support thru political parties , corruption within our border security forces etc. If previously we didn't force the issue with SHW in power now we're waiting for the present dispensation to bare it's fangs.
However if I'm not mistaken more than 80% of the fencing has already been undertaken. Moreover fencing is only part of it , we require extensive drone coverage & whatever latest state of the art technology is available to do so .
There was 915.35 km of border remaining to be fenced from this January. ThePrint analysis shows that with just 35km fenced last year, meeting target seems to be an uphill task.
theprint.in
Another way of looking at it is the more the illegal immigration the more the imbalance in demographics which is bound to precipitate a crisis in the future. The can has been kicked down the road for a very long time indeed such that we're now running out of the road.
The current system of border fencing is bullshit from what i have seen. In 2022 when i spent a year in India, i went to a village right by the Ichamati river boundary with BD ( its a village of my dad's kaamwaali, who wanted us to see her home etc). To give a better context, the village i went to is like 20-30km south of the Petrapole-Beniapole border crossing at Bongaon.
Well turns out that there is no fencing on BD side, its only on our side, but we fence between 50-100m from the actual border due to terrain preferences and thus, the 50-100m stretch between the fence and the actual border is 'indian no mans land'. Well, BSF allows the farmers who's land is in the no-mans land to go farm it, which is done by having gates in the fence ( 1 per village), with old school 1960s style of 'there is a registry book with ur name on it, open page, find ur name, initial with time when u leave the gate and again initial with time when you come back' and there is pretty much ZERO ID check because 99% of these farmers cant be arsed to carry their adhaar/pan with them and they rely on ' BSF guard knows our faces, we come and go daily'.
My dad's kaamwaali's village, like many of these villages, has some relatives on the bangladesh side ( the kaamwaali's family itself has some cousins 5-10km past the border) and the way they 'visit' each other, is my kaamwaali's nephew just 'goes to work the field in no mans land but doesnt return, he keeps going, finds his cousin in beedeeland and they LITERALLY exchange lungis and cousin walks back in, knows his cousin's (kaamwaali's nephew) name and what number page he is in the 'ledger', signs and goes sees his aunt, stays for a couple of days, then goes back and the real dude returns, with none the wiser.
we keep whining about evol kaanglus and corrupt BSF as the main reason for border porosity with bangladesh, but the real problem is these desi farmland in self-created no-mans land past the fence and our own desi people accessing past the fence willy nilly on a daily basis. ALL the kanglus, including the big dons who smuggle people, rely on these villagers who cross back and forth as the main 'coyotes' of moving people, because it ALL comes down to getting past the gate at a specific village point.
Which is ez if you live right next to the border and know the precise timings of shift change/know when new personnel arrive ( so they dont know ur face as well and require other shift people to familiarise them with the regular gate-goers), know which one is the greasy BSF dude, etc.
The dude i speak of, explained the whole thing to me and it works like a freaking honda engine in efficiency by the way he speaks of it.
Therre is very little 'they cut a hole in the fence and came in' crap because that is well monitored and BSF jawaans are not allergic towards firing warning shots towards bangladesh from watchtowers(which are at good interval) at the slightest hint of movement where there is no gate.
The problem of Beedland border, IMO is mostly self-created but most of the govt/populace is unaware to how this particular fence-hopping mechanics work and this mechanic being the prime driver of border porosity.
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