Top commanders of the border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh will meet later this week to thrash out a number of issues including illegal crossing over and migration to Indian side, and smuggling of narcotics along the eastern frontier.
'The first of the six helicopters will be delivered by September 16 and will be inducted into J&K and Northeast,' BSF Additional Director General A K Mitra said.
Sharma added that while there is "tension" at the border that runs along Jammu, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, there has been no ceasefire violation till now in these areas.
Pakistan's security forces are allowing Saeed to "openly operate" in the border areas to indoctrinate terrorist groups, Inspector General of BSF, Jammu Frontier, Rakesh Sharma told media persons in Jammu.
A BSF jawan was killed on Thursday when Pakistani troops opened sniper fire at Indian forward post along the Line of Control in Baramulla of North Kashmir.
The agency had received Rs 946.51 crore to manage its affairs in the Budget Estimates for 2023-24, which was later increased to Rs 968.86 crore in the Revised Estimates.
BSF asserted that they will continue with embankment building work at Indo-Bangladesh border regardless of firing from Bangladesh' side.
The father of Anju, a married Indian woman who travelled to Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and married her Facebook friend there on Tuesday, said she was as good as dead for her family back home.
Officials of the border guarding force had earlier called the incident ceasefire violation along the IB but as the details of the report came in, it was found to be an infiltration bid by armed terrorists.
Steps to resolve disputes on common areas of concern between India and Bangladesh were discussed at the four-day Border Security Force-BanglaDesh Rifles border coordination meeting in Kolkata.
A Border Security Force jawan and a woman were injured and two houses damaged on Saturday when Pakistani troops targeted Indian posts and civilian areas along the LoC in Nowshera and Sunderbani sectors of Rajouri district with mortar bombs and small arms fire, prompting the army to give a "befitting response".
In order to plug loopholes in the porous and unfenced borders along Pakistan and Bangladesh, India will soon set up a 'smart fence' mechanism as part of an over Rs 4,500-crore modernisation plan being implemented by the Border Security Force.
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