India completes over 9 km fencing at Manipur’s Moreh amid rising clashes in Myanmar

Imphal: India has done a 9.214 km-long border fencing mission at Manipur’s Moreh along the India-Myanmar border and work on constructing a avenue parallel to the fence is currently in progress, a mission aimed in opposition to bettering safety and curbing unlawful despicable-border activities to boot as give a boost to accessibility and enhance patrolling within the region, the MHA myth acknowledged.

The records talked about within the Ministry of Residence Affairs Annual Characterize 2023-2024 acknowledged that “The advance of fencing for a border length of 9.214 km at Moreh awarded to Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has been done and work on the avenue along the fence is in progress.”

The India-Myanmar border stretches over 1,600 km and traverses four northeastern states, at the side of Manipur. This porous border has been a hotspot for smuggling, unlawful migration, and rebel activities. The fencing mission at Moreh, a key border city and a well-known trade hub, is a part of India’s broader effort to web its borders and promote infrastructural pattern within the northeast.
India shares a 1,643 km long border with Myanmar which passes thru the States of Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Nagaland (215 km), Manipur (398 km) and Mizoram (510 km).

Out of the 1,643 km border, the demarcation of the 1,472 km border has been done. Construction work on two pilot initiatives of a Hybrid surveillance procedure, one km each and each in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur has been awarded to Assam Rifles and work is in progress

“The advance of 20.862 km fence and avenue used to be awarded to BRO in February, 2024 for which the work is in progress,” added the MHA myth.