India launches first ‘smart fence’ project along India-Pakistan border

India is working on making its borders smart. A first in India, the smart fences are being built under the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) Programme in northern Jammu.

Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol near the India-Pakistan international border area Source: AAP

The Home Minister of India, Mr Rajnath Singh on Monday inaugurated smart fences that would be installed along parts of India's border with Pakistan in an attempt to strengthen security along frontiers.

"After the effective implementation of this CIBMS on a pilot level, we have decided that 2,026 kilometres (of the border area), which we consider the especially vulnerable area, it will be implemented there, said Singh while addressing a news conference," Mr Singh told the journalists in Jammu.

An Indian soldier guard his post outside a military base at Braripora near the line of control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Source: AAP

The project under CIBMS is meant to be one of the many high tech state-of-the-art surveillance technologies to be incorporated. These include infrared and laser beam based intruder alarms, thermal imagers, advanced fence and ground sensors.