Srinagar: The Ministry of Home Affairs Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that a total of 2041 kilometres of LoC and International Border has been covered with the fence.
The Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Nisith Pramanik was responding to the queries raised in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday including the total stretch in kilometres on the borders where fencing is to be erected with neighbouring countries and the details, the target that has been achieved and the border areas along Pakistan and Bangladesh where fencing has been completed and the details thereof.
In a written reply filed to the parliament, the MoS Home said that the fencing is being erected on the Indo-Pakistan border, Indo-Bangladesh border and Indo-Myanmar border. “So far 5187 Km length of the International border has been covered by a fence”, the reply reads.
It reads that the total of 2041 kilometres of the Border of Indo-Pakistan has been covered by a fence.
