Rs. 1138.48 crores have been spent for the International Border fencing between India and Bangladesh during the last five years.

 The details of fencing along Indo-Bangladesh border are given below:

Border	Length of International Border	Fence sanctioned	Fence Completed	Work in progress	Balance	Probable date of completion
Indo-Bangladesh Border	4096.70	3326.14	2803.013	169.64	353.487	December, 2020

 

 The schemes for creation of border infrastructure works, on Indo-Bangladesh Border, like fence, road, floodlight and BOPs are in progress. 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 given below:-

India-Bangladesh Border

Border State	Year
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019 (upto 30.06.2019)
West Bengal	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

 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai in a written reply to question in the Lok Sabha today.

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