IN yet another allegation, Border Security Force (BSF) has said that ISI is assisting various militant outfits in Bangladesh to carry out terrorist activities in India through al Qaida and Taliban members. It said it had specific inputs regarding this. During October’s BSF-BDR meeting at Shillong the BSF handed over a fresh list of 78 insurgent camps of North East militants in the country to the BDR and urged them to take action against the insurgents.

BSF said efforts were on to complete the fencing along the 4,095km Indo-Bangladesh border. However it has admitted that there are problems in erecting fence along the riverine border as in some stretches, fencing had been washed away due to soil erosion. In the creek areas also border fence remained submerged under water during most part of the year, which made it ineffective and susceptible to rust and damage.

BSF said in the Shillong frontier a total of 414 illegal Bangladesh entrants were intercepted during the past one-year. Interrogation of many of the arrested Bangladeshis reveal that they have intentions to settle in India, seek employment in India smuggle Indian goods into Bangladesh. Infiltration through Indo-Bangla border at Dhubri in Assam was more than the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya because of ethnic

similarity between people of Bangladesh and Dhubri. To contain the Bangladeshi infiltration through these borders as well as trans-border smuggling, the BSF had already suggested the  respective State Governments for issuing identity cards to the people living along border areas and also to the ferries and boats who move through the riverine border between the two countries.

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