Lok Sabha Question No. 4905 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-23
Subject: Expenditure on Border Fencing
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Vincent H Pala, Abdul Khaleque, Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4905

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 23 rd  JULY, 2019/ SHRAVANA 01, 1941 (SAKA)

EXPENDITURE ON BORDER FENCING

4905.

SHRI VINCENT H. PALA:

SHRI ABDUL KHALEQUE:

SHRI MAGUNTA SREENIVASULU REDDY:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the amount sanctioned and spent for the International Border Fencing between India and Bangladesh during the last five years;
- (b)  the  total  distance to be fenced on Indo-Bangladesh Border and other borders and the distance fenced so far along with the time by which all fencing work are likely to be completed, border-wise;
- (c)  the  number  of  infiltrators  who  have  infiltrated  through  the  fencing  along  the Indo-Bangladesh border during the said period; and
- (d) the status of the schemes for Indo-Bangla Border during the said period and the reasons for delay thereof, if any?

ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI NITYANAND RAI)

(a): The  details  of  amount  sanctioned  and  spent  for  the  International  Border

Fencing between India and Bangladesh during the last five years are as under:

| Sno.   | Year    |   Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in Crore) |   Expenditure (Rs. in Crore) |
|--------|---------|------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 1.     | 2014-15 |                             274.13 |                       274.18 |
| 2.     | 2015-16 |                             175    |                       156.24 |
| 3.     | 2016-17 |                             100    |                        97.48 |
| 4.     | 2017-18 |                             200    |                       201.95 |
| 5.     | 2018-19 |                             408.58 |                       408.63 |
| Total  | Total   |                            1157.71 |                      1138.48 |

(b): The details of fencing along Indo Bangladesh & Indo Pakistan border are as under:

(Length in Kms)

| Border                 |   Length of International Border |   Fence sanctioned |   Fence Completed |   Work in progress | Balance   | Probable date of completion   |
|------------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------|-------------------|--------------------|-----------|-------------------------------|
| Indo-Bangladesh Border |                           4096.7 |            3326.14 |           2803.01 |             169.64 | 353.487   | December, 2020                |
| Indo-Pakistan Border   |                           2289.7 |            2069.05 |           2004.66 |              64.38 | -         | March, 2022                   |

(c): Border  guarding  forces  conduct  regular  patrolling,  lay  nakas  and  establish observation posts and carry out anti tunneling exercise to stop illegal infiltration.

However, some illegal migrants are able to enter in a clandestine and surreptitious manner, mainly due to difficult riverine terrain in parts of international border with Bangladesh  which  are  not  amenable  to  physical  fencing.  As  such,  the  accurate number of infiltrators is not available. However the details of infiltrators who were apprehended along Indo-Bangladesh border during the last 5 years w.e.f. 01.01.2014 to 31.12.2018 and current year up to 30.06.2019 is as under:-

## India-Bangladesh Border

| Border State   |   Year |   Year |   Year |   Year |   Year | Year                   |
|----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|------------------------|
|                |   2014 |   2015 |   2016 |   2017 |   2018 | 2019 (upto 30.06.2019) |
| West           |   2260 |   3296 |   1875 |    992 |    900 | 379                    |
| Assam          |     22 |      8 |      7 |     11 |     11 | 6                      |
| Meghalaya      |     64 |     57 |     63 |     47 |     39 | 11                     |
| Mizoram        |      8 |      0 |      0 |      3 |      3 | 7                      |
| Tripura        |    101 |     65 |    130 |    122 |    165 | 94                     |
| Total          |   2455 |   3426 |   2075 |   1175 |   1118 | 497                    |

(d): The  schemes  for  creation  of  border  infrastructure  works  like  fence,  road, floodlight  and  BOPs  are  in  progress  and  their  expected  date  for  completion  is December, 2020.

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