The Border Security Force is continuously working to develop counter-drone and anti-tunnel technologies to effectively check cross-border drugs and arms smuggling and terrorist infiltration bids along the India-Pakistan border, force chief Pankaj Kumar Singh said on Friday. The BSF director-general said the force has shot down a total of 7 drones over the last six months (December바카라 웹사이트2021-May 2022) and has detected three underground tunnels along the Pakistan border between January 2021 to May 2022.
"We are keeping a strict vigil on cross-border drone activities through which drugs and arms are smuggled and underground tunnels which are used for infiltration by terrorists. The BSF is also working to develop effective technologies to check drones and underground tunnels," he said. Singh was speaking during an investiture ceremony and the annual 'Rustamji Memorial Lecture' of the border force. The about바카라 웹사이트2.65 lakh personnel strong force was raised in 1965 and it is primarily tasked to guard Indian borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Minister of State for Home Affairs,바카라 웹사이트Nityanand Rai, delivered the keynote speech and also honored a total of 16 personnel, including two posthumously, with the police medal for gallantry. Those decorated include second-in-command rank officer Deepak Kumar Mandal who laid down his life in 2017 while stopping cross-border cattle smuggling in Tripura. Mandal, commanding the 145th battalion of the border guarding force, was grievously hit by a four-wheeler by the smugglers on October바카라 웹사이트16 that year and he succumbed to his injuries four days later.
Thirteen BSF personnel were also awarded the gallantry medals for killing three terrorists who attacked the Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) airfield on October 3, 2017.바카라 웹사이트Those awarded for this operation include Assistant Sub Inspector바카라 웹사이트Brijkishor Yadav (posthumously) and deputy inspectors general바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트S S Guleria and Hari Lal among others.바카라 웹사이트
