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| BSF identifies 5 locations to install 'Hi-Tech Laser Walls' from Kathua to Jammu on IB | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 3: Keeping in view the porous and treacherous terrain and to keep an effective vigil against armed intruders on International Border, the Border Security Force has identified around five locations to initially install 'Hi-Tech Laser Walls' on Indo-Pak international border in the Jammu region.
International Border from Kathua to Jammu is having a stretch of 198 km.
''Laser Walls are being installed on very sensitive locations initially between Kathua to Jammu including in Samba district,'' official sources here told .
They said, ''after the Pathankot terror attack, where armed terrorists are believed to have crossed over from Pakistan by breaching the IB from the Bamiyal area of Punjab, the Union Home Ministry and BSF have sped up the deployment and activation of laser walls along the long and meandering porous border.
''Initially it would be installed at sensitive five locations as experimental basis, but 40 vital locations have been selected by the agencies concerned in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat where the 'laser walls' are to be planted'', the sources said.
The 'High Tech Laser Wall' will be installed on small river or brook or a gap suspected to be used by the intruders and once identified through the radar, be it an intruder or a bird or a rodent will be scanned and the device will beep accordingly thus switching on the alert siren, they said.
Sources added that the preliminary results in detecting illegal movements through 'laser walls' are encouraging."
''It will be of great use as the BSF personnel deployed in the nearby post will get alerted and would hunt down the interrupter and intruder,'' they asserted adding that once activated , it would prove of more significance to BSF troops manning borders which already are equipped with state-of-the-art tracking devices and other hi-tech gadgets.
Laser walls will be a boon especially during foggy climatic conditions, which is normal in Jammu and Kashmir when visibility often becomes poor making border vulnerable to infiltration, adding, ''a camera has restrictions to keep close watch upto a maximum range and cannot maintain vigil along 130-metre-wide river bed but the laser walls will make it possible.''
Sources, however, said that BSF is also considering deploying at least four more battalions in Punjab and Jammu border areas as a second-tier of defence after withdrawing these units from the Line of Control.
''Apart from installation of laser walls, four other pilot projects of similar kind in stretches of 30-40 kms of IB in Jammu and Gujarat and one in West Bengal along Indo-Bangla border have also been approved by Home Ministry to secure Indian borders effectively,'' they asserted. |
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