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Manipur role for BSF - State nod to replace Assam Rifles with border force
The Telegraph | Nishit Dholabhai | New Delhi, April 19:
The BSF may soon replace the Assam Rifles on the Myanmar border after Manipur backed the home ministry’s proposal.
Manipur — one of the northeastern states that shares a border with Myanmar — is learnt to have written to the home ministry asking for the Assam Rifles to be exclusively deployed for counter-insurgency while the BSF patrols the 1,643km border.
After the army opposed the BSF’s deployment, the home ministry relented and asked the Assam Rifles to take charge. However, the force was understood to have asked the home ministry to improve infrastructure in the border areas before its soldiers could move in.
The army sought more personnel on the ground, after which the home ministry sanctioned 22 more battalions in addition to the existing 46. An Assam Rifles official said, however, that “status quo” had been maintained and the additional battalions had not been sent yet.
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