NEW DELHI: Two stretches along the international border in Jammu are set to get a high-tech surveillance system, complete with invisible electronic walls and infra-red sensors to detect intruders and pass on alerts in real time to the nearest border outpost for quick action.Union home minister
Rajnath Singh will visit Jammu on September 17 to launch two pilot projects under the comprehensive
integrated border management system (CIBMS).
CIBMS is based on electronic surveillance using sophisticated equipment including thermal imagers, unattended ground sensors, fibre-optic sensors, radars and sonars. It will especially help the BSF guard riverine stretches along the border, erecting an invisible electronic wall on the river that will set off an alarm at the nearest border post in the event of a breach. A quick reaction team of BSF will immediately move in to neutralise the infiltration bid.
Singh had got a
live demonstration of CIBMS at BSF’s Tekanpur facility in March 2017. One-and-a-half years later, the first two phases of the programme, each covering around 5 km border stretch, are ready for launch. The idea is to have the high-tech surveillance system in place not only at the entire western border but also the
eastern border with
Bangladesh, particularly the riverine stretches.