NEW DELHI, NOV 27: The Border Security Force (BSF) is set to get three mobile border outposts (BOPs) for effective surveillance along the topographically hostile marshy and watery border in Gujarat and eastern sectors.E.N. Ram Mohan, BSF Director General, today told mediapersons that the proposal for three mobile BOPs had been recently okayed by the government. These would be deployed in Rann of Kutch, the Sunderbans and along the Brahmaputra. The mobile BOPs, with a capacity to accommodate 30 personnel and store rations for weeks, would give a cutting edge to the BSF operations against infiltrators.The Government apparently realised the need to augment the BSF's surveillance armoury after the recent crash of a BSF craft in Sir Creek area of Gujarat. Mohan said the BSF would also acquire four MI aeroplanes and its fleet of outdated Avros is being replaced by jet aeroplanes.Having a subtle dig at politicians, Mohan said the lack of political will was coming in the way of forces engaged in tackling infiltration in Assam (from Bangladesh). ``In Assam, Hiteshwar Saikia is not interested in the fencing of the Indo-Bangladesh border and has diverted the funds to other projects,'' Mohan, an Assam-cadre IPS officer, added.Mohan added that the infiltration from Bangladesh was primarily due to economic disparities between the two countries and that the trend was ``fraught with dangerous consequences''. At present, the West Bengal border is being fenced and the plan envisages relocation of about 45 villages along it.Mohan, however, refused to join issue with Army Chief General Padmanabhan on whether Kashmir was a political problem. ``I always believe that any insurgency can be sorted out with good governance,'' was all he said.The BSF chief also confirmed that the security forces were expecting intensified attacks on ``soft targets'' by the Pakistan-based pan-Islamic insurgent groups in Jammu and Kashmir. However, he informed, the Pakistani rangers had agreed to stop firing on civilians along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir. The decision was taken mutually by the BSF and Rangers which met at Lahore for their bi-annual conference recently. He said the guns had fallen silent on the border after the meeting.
