BORDER MANAGEMENT

SCOPE

AGENCIES

ISSUES

...to meet the common challenge of facilitating the movement of legitimate people and goods while maintaining secure borders and meeting national legal requirements.

Border with Pakistan 3323 kms

Border with Afghanistan 106 kms

Border with China 3488 kms

Border with Nepal 1751 kms

Border with Myanmar 3323 kms

Border with Bangladesh 4096.7 kms

Coastline 7516.6 kms

Border with Bhutan 699 kms

Source:Annual report of the MHA 2007-08. Ch III, pg 28

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INDIA's National Boundaries

Islands - 1197 with 2094 km additional coastline.

CONCERNED AGENCIES

MEA Diplomatic front

MOD Defence against aggression and border management of disputed areas (LC & CFL).Indian Army land (J&K, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal)

IAF - air

Coast Guard & IN - sea

MHA Defence of IB, ISIB with Pakistan & Bangladesh BSF

IB with China ITBP

IB with Nepal SSB

IB in NE with China, Myanmar Assam & Manipur Rifles

India's Coast Guard

Border States of India

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,

Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal West Bengal.

ISSUES

Security of the BorderBorder Fence, roads, infrastructure, fencing, floodlighting, defenses

High tech surveillance

Piracy

Migration

Smuggling

Trade & Transit

Water

Fencing & floodlighting constructed along Indo-Pakistan border

Guarding a high-tech secirity fence

ISSUES

Maritime securityIndia's maritime boundary

UNCLOS

EEZ

Piracy

Fishing, poaching & smuggling

Belligerent naval threats

Ring around India view

ISSUES

Cartographic aggressionPakistanMaps

Mountaineering expeditions

Ceded territory in J&K to China

ChinaMaps

Visa issues

Water problems

BangladeshNew Moore Island

The Jammu & Kashmir Issue

Border Area Development Program

MHA Initiative, National level Empowered Committee, under the guidelines framed by the Planning Commission from 7th Plan (1985-1990) onwards.

Covers 358 border blocks of 94 districts of seventeen (17) States.

Objective - to meet the special developmental needs of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the International border.

Schemes:construction/maintenance of roads,

Water supply, education, sports,

filling gaps in infrastructure, security,

organisation of early childhood care and education centre, education for physically handicapped and backward sections, etc.