Jawans won’t stand guard at border 24x7 soon: Rajnath Singh

BIKANER/JAISALMER:Home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that technological solutions in border security, which were being implemented by India, would eliminate the need for a soldier to stand guard round the clock to protect the borders. He said a comprehensive integrated border management system was being implemented by the government to strengthen border security and a pilot project under the system was launched in Jammu.




“We want that such technological solutions be used where there is fencing, because it gets damaged after some time. This will ensure a complete border security,” Singh said, while addressing BSF jawans here.

“We are going to implement this too…this will take time but our jawans will not need to stand guard constantly round the clock on the border for protection,” he said.

The home minister was on a two-day visit to Bikaner on Friday and visited the Indo-Pak Border and reviewed security arrangements, and motivated the BSF jawans. He celebrated Dusshera with BSF jawans and congratulated them. Singh distributed sweets among the jawans and also addressed a ‘Sainik Sammelan’. Rajnath Singh checked the weapons displayed and took information regarding this from BSF officers.

Singh said there would be a command and control centre, from where the soldiers would monitor activities on the border. “They will get to know if any intruder is entering into India and the nearest border outpost will be alerted by the command and control centre and security will be ensured,” he said.

Singh said the people of the nation have faith in the BSF jawans and it has increased rapidly, recently. He also claimed the Pakistani rangers were jittery due to the BSF. Singh said he had seen their hard work when they guarded borders and also in the Naxal and terrorism-affected areas.

“You have a feeling of national respect which inspires you. It was the feeling which had inspired Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and Khudiram Bose to fight for the freedom of the country,” he said.

He said there would be no need to use weapons if the neighbouring country stopped using them.