Chinese centres in Nepal not a threat to India as of now: SSB

India is keeping an eye on growing number of Chinese cultural centres in neighbouring Nepal, but their activity has not reached the threshold where it impinges on the country's security, outgoing chief of border guarding force SSB said here today.
"We do not need to bother about these centres as such. But we need to be aware about them and we are aware about them. Their activity has not reached the threshold where it starts to impinge on our security," outgoing Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) chief Arun Chaudhary told PTI.
Set up in 2008, the centres, according to reports, teach Chinese language to locals and even disseminate cultural information about China and its various art forms.

The SSB is the mandated paramilitary force to guard the 1,751-km long porous Indo-Nepal border which is prone to smuggling of arms, ammunition and illegal crossover of anti-national elements.
A 1977-batch IPS officer from Bihar cadre, Chaudhary, who has served in key posts at Intelligence Bureau, CISF and Bihar Police, said keeping in view the challenges faced by the force on this border and also the Bhutan border that it secures, the SSB has revamped and re-energised its intelligence gathering setup.
"We have now brought out a new intelligence setup. Our emphasis is that each one of our personnel in the border areas should dove tail their human resource. Apart from our exclusive intelligence gathering setup in these border areas, henceforth, our troops will be motivated to report and share all that they pickup during their regular tasks and while patrolling," he said.