Indian team will visit Israel to learn about setting up hi-tech fence along

[Darth Vader]

Aloke Tikku | Hindustan Times

India will send a team to Israel to learn from its experiences in erecting the security barrier along the West Bank and Gaza Strip to assess technologies that New Delhi could implement at its fence with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Home minister P Chidambaram, who had launched the fencing
project in 1986, told a group of MPs this week that the government was exploring use of modern technology in border management and would send a team to Israel to assess technologies used there.

Israel’s security fence of concrete and steel razor wires — complete with electronic sensors and close-circuit cameras — has been as useful to stop terrorist strikes as it has been controversial.

The fence helped reduce attacks on Israeli settlements but has been controversial due to Israel’s decision to build the barrier, at places, deep into the occupied West Bank.

India had voted against the fence on the West Bank at the UN general assembly in 2004.

At the meeting of the consultative committee, the minister said how India too used technology — sensors and satellite images — to track infiltrators.

But the home minister wants the team to evaluate technologies used elsewhere in the world. He had conceded just last month that the border with Bangladesh was still “open and porous”.

Technology, however, is only one component, a home ministry source said, citing recent orders to get smugglers caught on the border to identify locations from where they crossed the border and penalise the local BSF commander.

 

[TopCat]

India cant even fund the primitive wire fencing now dreaming of high tech israeli fence who built the fence not in Isarel land but palestinian land with US money. Can India afford to loose 50m wide land strip along 5000 KM border? I guess not.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

For India i doubt its practical to go for this, considering the size of the borders.


Maybe possible for spots difficult to monitor.

 

[Paan Singh]

What india will do when indian politicians are inviting illegal Bd's?
why this hypocrisy by govt? why wasting money?

 

[danger007]

India cant even fund the primitive wire fencing now dreaming of high tech israeli fence who built the fence not in Isarel land but palestinian land with US money. Can India afford to loose 50m wide land strip along 5000 KM border? I guess not.

please provide funds for us... just kidding .... but we can do it in critical areas.... or some important strategic locations.... in various phases...

 

[INDIAISM]

So Now the Evil Kafir's are ganging up with Evil Jews......to protect their land from Saint Bangladesh's and their brothers in our west... who cross border just to smuggle Cattles or to spread terrorism....

Btw after seeing Assam Riots i thinks its high our Centre Govt should focus on fencing Indo-Bangla Border.....we can't see one of our state burning because of illegal immigrants....and Above all we can't loose our land to illegal immigrants...

 

[bandit]

Ugh ignorant twit.

India already built a fence a fence on Pakistan border to keep those people out, now it's your turn, btwinstead of berating india y dont you ppl just stay in your own country and save us the trouble of kicking u out, we gave u a decent sized country in 71 exactly for the same reason dint we?

 

[Abingdonboy]

India cant even fund the primitive wire fencing now dreaming of high tech israeli fence who built the fence not in Isarel land but palestinian land with US money. Can India afford to loose 50m wide land strip along 5000 KM border? I guess not.

What nonsense are you talking about? Most of the fencing has been erected at INDIAN taxpayers' expense-not Pakistan's or Bangladeshi who (you would think) would want to cut down on illegal smuggling and their citizens fleeing to India. This tech will most likely be put in key strategic locations as no nation can afford such technology to be in place for 1000s of km of border.

+Just FYI there is already high-tech equipment in place on borders to check intrusions such as radars, thermal imagers, motion sensors, seismic detectors etc

 

[Nassr]

India's border with Bangladesh is over 4000 km long. It cost Israelis 2.1 Billion dollars to construct 650 km long fence. Therefore it may cost India around 13 Billion dollars to erect the type of fence which the Israelis have constructed or are constructing. However, it may cost India much more due to the type of terrain along her border with Bangladesh.

If it has to be a hi-tech security fence, it would not only require the fence, it would require different types cameras, provision of connectivity to many monitoring stations and off-course a whole lot of data/storage centres or facilities to be able to view the running and older footage in good time for forensic analysis.

The cameras needed are of different types. Day-night, thermal for night viewing etc etc. What may be the resolution of cameras, some may be required for identification of people, others may be required for surveillance and not recognition.

A complex system indeed which would cost a lot of money. Would the connectivity be wireless, which could support the bandwidth or fiber.

India can do it, but it would cost dearly for installing such a hi-tech system.

 

[KRAIT]

India cant even fund the primitive wire fencing now dreaming of high tech israeli fence who built the fence not in Isarel land but palestinian land with US money. Can India afford to loose 50m wide land strip along 5000 KM border? I guess not.

We are accustomed to hear words like that India can't do this, do that. Have you ever visited India-Pakistan or India- Bangladesh border. Go there and you will have no doubt about India.

India's border with Bangladesh is over 4000 km long. It cost Israelis 2.1 Billion dollars to construct 650 km long fence. Therefore it may cost India around 13 Billion dollars to erect the type of fence which the Israelis have constructed or are constructing. However, it may cost India much more due to the type of terrain along her border with Bangladesh.

If it has to be a hi-tech security fence, it would not only require the fence, it would require different types cameras, provision of connectivity to many monitoring stations and off-course a whole lot of data/storage centres or facilities to be able to view the running and older footage in good time for forensic analysis.

The cameras needed are of different types. Day-night, thermal for night viewing etc etc. What may be the resolution of cameras, some may be required for identification of people, others may be required for surveillance and not recognition.

A complex system indeed which would cost a lot of money. Would the connectivity be wireless, which could support the bandwidth or fiber.

India can do it, but it would cost dearly for installing such a hi-tech system.

Great post Mate, good to see posters like you bringing technical and logical points in discussion. You are damn right it will be very costly for us. But India can afford it as it may save us more money after we secure our border.

 

[Tshering22]

I don't know whether this is needed for anything else, but we BADLY need it for the Bangladesh border here. Commies and Suckularist vermin invite Bangla extremist migrants in droves for votebank. We all saw what this turned out to be in Assam recently. I hope the rest of wannabe "liberal" Indians realize what big danger this government is taking us into.

We need electrified fencing ASAP and once again clear the BSF to use Shoot-At-Sight orders to prevent border-crossing.

 

[Abingdonboy]

What do certain members here the current Indian fencing looks like? This?:

More like:

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

it is much needed in Kashmir, don't care about the cost if it can stop the terrorists.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Watch from 7.28-

Watch from start:

This was from 2009!

 

[RISING SUN]

India's border with Bangladesh is over 4000 km long. It cost Israelis 2.1 Billion dollars to construct 650 km long fence. Therefore it may cost India around 13 Billion dollars to erect the type of fence which the Israelis have constructed or are constructing. However, it may cost India much more due to the type of terrain along her border with Bangladesh.

If it has to be a hi-tech security fence, it would not only require the fence, it would require different types cameras, provision of connectivity to many monitoring stations and off-course a whole lot of data/storage centres or facilities to be able to view the running and older footage in good time for forensic analysis.

The cameras needed are of different types. Day-night, thermal for night viewing etc etc. What may be the resolution of cameras, some may be required for identification of people, others may be required for surveillance and not recognition.

A complex system indeed which would cost a lot of money. Would the connectivity be wireless, which could support the bandwidth or fiber.

India can do it, but it would cost dearly for installing such a hi-tech system.

You work on this topic is appreciated mate. But there is 1 more thing which you are missing here. I see this development & if return on my investment is high,I will definitely go for it. Same is the case for India. It will be done in phases. Better late than never.