Question : UPGRADING FENCING ALONG BORDERS

(a) whether there are reports of damage to fencing due to snowfall, flood and corrosion at the borders;

(b) if so, whether the Government proposes to erect snow and flood resistant fencing at the borders;

(c) if so, the details thereof; and

(d) if not, the remedial measures taken by the Government in this regard?

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

(a): Yes, the damage to border fence being manned by the Border Security Force(BSF) has been reported due to flood and corrosion. However, the stretch of Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders having fence does not witness snow-fall. The details of damaged border fence along Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders due to various natural factors such as flood, high velocity winds, shifting sand dunes, corrosion, rainfall etc are as under:-

Indo-Pakistan
State	Damaged Border Fence(In Km.)
Jammu	7
Punjab	127
Rajasthan	276
Gujarat	86
Total	496

Indo-Bangladesh
State	Damaged Border Fence(In Km.)
West Bengal	259
Assam	52
Meghalaya	5
Tripura	52
Mizoram	10
Total	378