NEW DELHI, March 18 (UPI) -- India will deploy high-tech electronic surveillance equipment along its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, the country's Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
"The government has decided to deploy high-tech electronic-surveillance equipment on the international borders of the country to act as force multiplier for effective management of borders and to prevent infiltration," junior Interior Minister V. Radhika Selvi told Parliament.
She said the equipment includes night-vision devices, handheld thermal imagers, long-range reconnaissance and observation systems, mobile surveillance vehicles, battlefield surveillance radars, direction finders and high-powered telescopes.
"Certain equipments like HHTI, LORROS and BFSR have already been procured and deployed at the borders," she said.
She said fencing along the border with Pakistan had been completed and helped reduce incidents of infiltration by suspected terrorists. She said fencing along the border with Bangladesh was almost complete, which would also prevent the smuggling of arms and ammunition, and the movement of insurgent groups active in the insurgency-hit northeastern region.
