Construction of 25 composite BOPs completed along Indo-Bangla

Twenty five composite Border Outposts (BOPs) out of total 65 BOPs have already been completed along the 856 km long Tripura-Bangladesh international border (IB) to maintain stringent vigil to check smuggling and infiltration, BSF said today.
"There are 245 BOPs in Tripura of which 65 BOPs are being converted to composite BOPs for stringent vigil and domination in the border. Out of 65, twenty five such BOPs have already been completed," IG of BSF, Tripura Frontier B N Sharma told reporters.
The Rangamura composite BOP in South Tripura district, about 90 km from here was today inaugurated by the DGP of Tripura police, K Nagraj.

This kind of BOP would provide better logistic supports and better facilities to the BSF personnel which would help maintain better vigil in the border.
A composite BOP would have at least one jawans barrack, one kitchen, one dining hall, one garage, one generator room, one toilet block, one administrative block, one wireless room, one weapons room and six cemented bunkers to resist any attack and also medical facilities.
Sharma said, earlier many BOPs were makeshift and the BSF personnel faced problems during rain and winters.
Tripura DGP said barbed wire fencing could not be constructed in some places of the border due to hostile terrain and human habitation in the border, but despite all constrains works are on progress.

He stated that fencing could check infiltration and border smuggling up to some extent.