Quadrangular security setup to be operationalised by December

New Delhi: The quadrangular security grid announced by Union home minister Amit Shah last week will have seven actionable points with 33 sub-points, which will be integrated by this year end after suggestions from security forces, officials aware of the matter have said. The decision comes after the first land border conference last week, which was attended by 119 border district superintendents and collectors.

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The four components of this security grid consist of the Union government, central agencies, central armed police forces (CAPFs) deployed at respective borders, state and UT administrations, and the fourth will be locals, the officials explained. This will be worked out and released before December for smart borders, which include anti-drone deployments, high resolution cameras, warning systems among others, the officials said.


The second subset of these four-layered securities will be an anti-terrorism grid, which will include central agencies and state police to focus on cybercrime, financial crime, narco terror, organised crime, radicalisation, smuggling of weapons, identification of illegal foreign nationals in border areas, among others. The grid will, with the help of the state administration and CAPFs, be tasked to examine changes in demography. Among other components will be electronic surveillance, ground sensors, thermal imaging, CCTVs, anti-tunnelling system, the officials said.

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The Union home secretary will hold regular interactions with all the stakeholders every six months once the set-up is in place while the Intelligence Bureau chief will hold interactions within three months with security forces and CAPFs. This will evolve at the state-level where DGPs will be required to carry out assessment at district SP and collector levels, according to the plan.