Identity cards for border village demanded

People living in border villages should be provided with identity cards to check infiltration, Inspector General of BSF’s Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland frontier V. S. Sirohi said. 

"If identity cards were given to the people living in border villages, it would be easy to identify a foreign national illegally entering our territory," V. S. Sirohi said. He said, otherwise it would be difficult to identify an infiltrator as people living on both sides of India-Bangladesh boundary speak the same language and follow the same customs. The BSF IG said, it would also be better if the villages situated on the international border were shifted to some other places. "Similarly, if boats plying on the rivers just near the international border had registrations of our country, there would be no difficulty in distinguishing them from boats coming from neighbouring countries," IG Sirohi said. 

He said it was necessary as thousands of country boats, plying on the Brahmaputra in Dhubri and Goalpara districts of Assam bordering Bangladesh had no registration marks. The BSF IG said he had written several times to the Assam and Meghalaya governments and also to the Centre on the issues, but no action had been taken so far.