New Delhi [India]: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that a secure border, a prosperous border region, and a vigilant society together can make the country secure.
The Home Minister said, under the Vibrant Villages Programme, efforts are being made to prevent migration, create jobs, and ensure 100 percent implementation of government welfare schemes.
He said, the government is creating a robust system to make the country completely infiltration-free. Shah was addressing a conference of Superintendents of Police (SPs) from border districts in New Delhi yesterday.
He noted that the Narendra Modi-led government has scientifically increased border infrastructure by four hundred percent. Mr. Shah said the government is fencing the over one thousand six hundred km-long India-Myanmar border at a cost of thirty-one thousand crore rupees.
He stressed the importance of ensuring that information on demographic changes caused by abnormal factors in border areas is communicated from the grassroots to the highest level at the earliest.
The Home Minister said the government’s objectives are to prevent proxy war, illegal infiltration, radicalisation, narcotics trafficking, drone-related threats, and demographic changes, among other security challenges, while making border areas safer and more livable.
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SPs from border states and Union Territories, including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and northeastern states, participated in the conference. Senior officials of the Home Ministry also attended.
The conference aimed to strengthen the country’s border security framework by assessing the current situation in vulnerable frontier regions and identifying measures to improve enforcement.
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The conference took place against the backdrop of the Centre’s decision a few months ago to constitute a high-level committee to examine the extent of demographic changes taking place in different parts of the country and identify the factors responsible for them.
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