'Infiltration from Bangla impossible to stop'
New
Delhi,
Nov
30:
Border
Security
Force
(BSF)
Director
General
A
K
Mitra
has
said
that
it
was
impossible
to
stop
infiltration
along
India"s
porous
borders
with
Bangladesh.
"I believe that we cannot completely control infiltration through the India-Bangladesh border. But that doesn't mean we stop our efforts towards achieving the same. It is very porous border and even today many areas are not fenced because of geographical barriers," said Mitra.
India shares a 4096-kilometer border with Bangladesh out of which the land border stretch is around 2979 kilometers and the remaining 1116-kilometer stretch in the riverline border, only 66 percent of fencing of the total stretch is complete.
New Delhi estimates there are up to 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India. Bangladesh denies the charges.
India is building a barbed wire fence to prevent unauthorized movement of people across the border.
Dhaka does not oppose the fencing per se, but objects when it is built too close to the zero line on the land and river line border.
ANI
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