“Formal agreements and creation of joint mechanisms between India and its neighbours is necessary to ensure elimination of illegal crossovers, drug trafficking and infiltration,” said India’s Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju. “Unless India’s neighbours are made to realise that it was in the interest of both countries to stop incursions, the security of all the countries cannot be ensured,” said Rijiju. The minister cautioned that in spite of border fencing such illegal activities are still going on. Rijiju said that India’s border security management and welfare of the people living along the country’s borders should receive its deserved attention. Illegal crossing and drug trafficking are the two major issues India has been confronting in its western as well as eastern borders.

Source: bd News24 September 08, 2016 11:37 UTC