Question : INFILTRATION THROUGH INDO NEPAL BORDER

(a) whether it is a fact that certain militants and Chinese agents had entered India due to the open and porous Indo-Nepal Border;

(b) if so, the number of such cases reported during each of the last three years and the current year;

(c) whether the open and porous border is also facilitating the smuggling of fake currencies across the border into the country;

(d) if so, the details of such cases reported and the quantum of fake currency seized during the said period; and

(e) the measures taken by the Government to check such activities along the border ?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN)

(a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTIONNO.112 FOR 13-8-2013

(a) & (b): There are no reports of any militant and Chinese agents entering India through the Indo-Nepal border, during the last three years and the current year. However, the details of third country nationals arrested while entering India without valid documents from Nepal is at Annexure-A.

(c) & (d): Inputs and seizures of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) from the Indo Nepal border are indicative of the existence of smuggling of Fake Indian Currency across the open and porous border.

The details of FICN seized by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which is the border guarding force on this border, during the last three years and the current year, State-wise, is at Annexure-B.

(e): SSB personnel are regularly carrying out patrolling and laying nakas along the border. Checking of persons crossing the border is also being carried out both randomly as well as on the basis of specific inputs. Field formations and intelligence set-ups are being regularly sensitized and continuous monitoring is being done in this regard. SSB has set up 455 Border Out Posts (BOPs) along the Indo-Nepal Border. Further, 9 additional operational battalions have been sanctioned to SSB by the Ministry of Home Affairs for deployment on the Indo-Nepal border.