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The Army has considerably improved its digital surveillance along the Line of Control (LoC) to verify infiltration, and work on changing the current border fence into a sensible fence built-in with a number of sensors is below manner, a number of officers have mentioned.
However, there’s a rethink on changing the whole fence over a 700 km stretch into a sensible one as a consequence of the excessive price. A hybrid model is now being adopted.
“The new hybrid model of the smart fence being tested will cost around ₹10 lakh per km and 60 km is being attempted this year,” a senior officer on the floor mentioned. “This has some rudimentary smartisation. The earlier proposal for a hi-tech fence was to cost around ₹10 crore for 2.4 km. A ₹10 crore type trial was done in the Army’s 19 Division last year, but it was too expensive so no more contracting was done,” the officer mentioned.
The fence might be built-in with LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors, infrared sensors and cameras amongst others.
In current months, the Army has beefed up troops near the LoC to plug gaps and it has resulted in a drop in infiltration this yr. Lt. Gen. B.S. Raju, General Officer Commanding, 15 Corps, mentioned that whereas the multi-tier anti-infiltration grid stays in place, the first tier has been strengthened. Troops have additionally been given drones, each large and small, to watch the floor.
The current fence referred to as the Anti-Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS) is positioned about 700 m from the LoC. The double row fence consisting of concertina wire was constructed between 2003 and 2005. With its excessive fee of degradation yearly as a consequence of snow, the Army got here up with a proposal to put in a sensible fence with varied sensors built-in into it and a pilot undertaking was subsequently taken up.
For occasion, Tangdhar sector will get 10-15 toes snowfall in peak winters, which implies in some locations the whole fence will get buried. Due to snow, the iron fence turns into brittle and consequently 60-70% of the fence needs to be repaired yearly, a second officer on the floor mentioned. “Every year, there is a major exercise over four months from March to June to bring that fence up,” he mentioned.
The fence is current along most of the round 740 km lengthy LoC. While the injury to the fence is much less south of Pirpanjal as a consequence of much less snow, heavy snowfall in North Kashmir causes large injury, officers mentioned. In addition to the fence, the Army has deployed lengthy vary surveillance methods to detect folks and small autos, each throughout day and night time. The fence too has been built-in with varied sensors.
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