After over 50 Army personnel died in the last couple of years in encounters with foreign terrorists in Jammu, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah said earlier this month that the government will deploy an electronic surveillance system along its borders with Pakistan to curb down infiltration.

This surveillance system will include an integrated network of human detection radar, thermal imaging and high-resolution cameras, comprehensive flooding along with the fences, tech-enabled vision of river stretches and seismic sensors for detection of tunnels. According to national media, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has already put some systems in place in certain stretches, while some high-tech types of equipment and security systems are at the experimental stage. All this will deal with the vulnerability on the borders with Pakistan.

Alongside, human detection radar integrated with cameras and a command and control system will also prove effective in the border area for surveillance. Micro-dropper radars are also being used because of their advantages over cameras and other types of sensors. Micro-droppers have higher penetration capabilities in obscure environments, like walls, smoke, etc.

India-Bangladesh Border

The government has also launched BOLD-QIT (Border electronically dominated QRT interception technique) under CIBMS on the India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district of Assam. This is along the riverine border since it was not feasible to construct border fencing in the 61 km border area in Dhubri, where the Brahmaputra River meet Bangladesh.