Budget for protecting Indo-Pak border tripled

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The Centre has increased the budget for road construction and fencing on Indo-Pak border by nearly 300 per cent, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

"Along Indo-Pakistan border, the government has approved revision of cost estimates in fencing, floodlighting, roads and Border Outposts works from the earlier sanctioned Rs 380 crore to Rs 1,201 crore," Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said in a written reply.

The Minister said 1,915 km of fencing and 1,861 km of floodlighting works have been completed on the Indo-Pakistan border out of 2,043 km of fencing and 2,009 km of floodlighting sanctioned by the government.

"Out of 340 km of border roads sanctioned by the government in Gujarat sector on the Indo-Pakistan border, the construction works of 219 km of border roads have been completed," he said.

The strengthening of infrastructure on the India- Bangladesh border is also on the anvil with nearly 150 per cent hike in the budget to improve fencing, floodlights and roads.

"The government has approved the revision of targets of fencing and road works along India-Bangladesh border from earlier sanctioned works of 2,429 km for fencing and 797 km of roads to 2,579 km and 1,422 km respectively under phase-2," he said.

Budget for protecting Indo-Pak border tripled: MHA

 

[Dark Angel]

The Centre has increased the budget for road construction and fencing on Indo-Pak border by nearly 300 per cent, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

"Along Indo-Pakistan border, the government has approved revision of cost estimates in fencing, floodlighting, roads and Border Outposts works from the earlier sanctioned Rs 380 crore to Rs 1,201 crore," Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said in a written reply.

The Minister said 1,915 km of fencing and 1,861 km of floodlighting works have been completed on the Indo-Pakistan border out of 2,043 km of fencing and 2,009 km of floodlighting sanctioned by the government.

"Out of 340 km of border roads sanctioned by the government in Gujarat sector on the Indo-Pakistan border, the construction works of 219 km of border roads have been completed," he said.

The strengthening of infrastructure on the India- Bangladesh border is also on the anvil with nearly 150 per cent hike in the budget to improve fencing, floodlights and roads.

"The government has approved the revision of targets of fencing and road works along India-Bangladesh border from earlier sanctioned works of 2,429 km for fencing and 797 km of roads to 2,579 km and 1,422 km respectively under phase-2," he said.

Budget for protecting Indo-Pak border tripled: MHA

The second term of the UPA goverment is gonna be a vital one in respect to Defence.The GOI would not repeat the mistake of taking inflitration lightly this time around.

 

[deckingraj]

The second term of the UPA goverment is gonna be a vital one in respect to Defence.The GOI would not repeat the mistake of taking inflitration lightly this time around

I hope so...If you look at history we have a tendency to be complacent after a certain period of time...Mumbai happened just last year so.... ....Anyways i welcome the step especially when we are not just concentrating on Indo-Pak border but Indo-Bangla border as well...

 

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A $600-million aerostat radar system was procured from Israel by India, post 26/11 incident, which have been implemented at the India-Pakistan border.India has increasingly turned to Israel for sophisticated weapons systems. The Mumbai terror attack in November 2008 was particularly significant in expediting India’s acquisition of air and naval surveillance systems which they bought from Israel.

 

[Hulk]

In a way Mumbai was good for India, not that what happened was good, but we had similar attacks in the past but GOI took it carelessly. I think it was due to common people who lost their life's. This attacked changed the course of thinking in India. Something that other people fail to understand as to why 26/11 was so important for us. It was awakening for us simple as that. Good to see all the measures being put together, we badly needed to modernize our police force, hope Chidambaram remain India's HM and UPA comes back to power again.