By Bhupen Goswami
Guwahati : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated the BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique) project on India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri. With an aim to check infiltration on 61KM Indo-Bangla vordet in the Dhubri district, Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the BOLD-QIT project. The BOLD-QIT project enables BSF to monitor Indo-Bangla borders with different kind of sensors in the unfenced riverine area of Brahmaputra along with its tributaries. Earlier the Home Minister, Rajnath Singh has inaugurated two smart fencing pilot projects of five kilometers each on India-Pakistan international border in Jammu in the month of September, last year.Home Minister Rajnath Singh today inaugurated the project BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique) on India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri District of Assam. Border Security Force, BSF is responsible for safeguarding of over four thousand kilometer long International Border with Bangladesh. At various places, it is not possible to erect Border Fence due to the geographical barriers.
The 61 kilometer of Border area in Dhubri District, where River Brahmaputra enters into Bangladesh is consisting of vast char lands and innumerable river channels thus making border guarding in this area, a daunting task especially during rainy season. To overcome this problem, in the year 2017, Ministry of Home Affairs decided to go for technological solution besides the physical presence of manpower of BSF. In January 2018, Information and Technology Wing of BSF undertook the project BOLD-QIT under Comprehensive Integrated Border Management system and completed it in record time with the technical support of various manufacturers and suppliers. The implementation of this project will not only help BSF to curb all types of cross border crimes but also provide respite to the troops from round the clock human surveillance. In September last year, the Home Minister inaugurated two smart-fencing pilot projects of five kilometer each on India-Pakistan international border in Jammu. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has arrived in Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) in Guwahati. The Home Minister will be visiting Dhubri to inaugurate BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique) on the Indo-Bangladesh border. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal welcomed him at the airport and he will be headed to Dhubri in an IAF helicopter. It is to be mentioned that the Government has sanctioned the BOLD-QIT project in order to check infiltration along the 61-km long Indo-Bangladesh border as the project will enable the BSF to monitor movement along the riverine border with sensors.