Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front

Smruti D

During the annual press conference, ahead of the Border Security Force’s Raising Day which was celebrated in Jaisalmer this year, Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the demographic balance has been upset in border states which is why the decision to extends the force’s jurisdiction from 15 km to 50 km has been taken.

In a gazette notification on October 11, the ministry of home affairs had announced that it was amending a notification of 2014 regarding the BSF jurisdiction along borders where it was deployed. It outlined the new jurisdiction as ‘whole of the area comprised in the states of Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya and Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and so much of the area comprised within a belt of fifty kilometres in the states of