The Hindu : `Fencing of Rajasthan border to be completed by 2005'

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Friday, Mar 26, 2004

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`Fencing of Rajasthan border to be completed by 2005'

MUMBAI, MARCH 25. Fencing work on the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan sector to check infiltration would be completed by 2005, Lieutenant General B S Takhar, General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, said today.

``At least 400 to 500 kms long fencing would be required to be done,'' Lieutenant General Takhar, on a two-day official visit here, told reporters.

The insurgency is minimum in the southern command, which stretches from Rajasthan to Kerala on the west coast, Tamil Nadu and up to Andaman and Nicobar on the east coast, he said. General Takhar, who is visiting the city for the first time after taking over as the chief of Southern Command, said ``during his tenure the equipment and systems will be put to test. These include self-propelled guns, artillary, radiochips, tanks and multi-barrel rocket launchers.''

``In all, 14 indigenously built `Arjun' tankers had been inducted into the army and 120 more would be added in the second phase. The 120 high-tech `Arjun' tankers are under production,'' he disclosed.

The incidence of insurgency after ``Operation Parakram'' was minimum, he said.

He said his immediate priority would be to provide adequate training to the troops so that they are in a position to face a war within a short notice and get deployed within hours of such an eventuality. -- PTI

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