India's borders need larger attention, investment: J&K Guv

September 06, 2016 17:44

India's borders need much larger investment and attention, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra said on Tuesday as he batted for "smart border management" for people living along these areas.

Speaking at a conference on 'Homeland Security, Smart Border Management' organised by FICCI in New Delhi, he said such management was required for a state like Jammu and Kashmir which faces proxy war and infiltration attempts round the year.

"In the state where I am working, infiltration attempts are made throughout the year..across the high and snow-clad mountains, across the planes, riverbeds and nallahs," he said.

Stating that India's borders needed more attention and investment, Vohra maintained border management was no longer a general problem.

"One needs special forces to tackle highly-trained terrorists," he said.

He said owing to the nature of threats Jammu and Kashmir has faced in the last three decades particularly infiltration, proxy wars, insurgencies and militancies supported from across the borders, it was not possible to deal

with sectoral violence only through internal and external security.

Vohra said maintenance of public order in the hinterland was an extremely important component of border guarding.

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