Border Security Force
BSF had trained, supported and formed part of Mukti Vahini and had entered erstwhile East Pakistan before the actual hostilities broke out. This is Tear Smoke Unit (TSU).BSF had played a very important role in LIBERATION of BANGLADESH which Late Mrs Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujbir Rehman had also acknowledged. Although originally charged with guarding India s external boundaries, the BSF has more recently been given the task in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations. Each battalion will provide 18 self-contained specialist search and rescue teams of 45 personnel each including engineers, technicians, electricians, dog squads and medical/paramedics.
function under the DG. But CRPF is yet to take over sensitive places like Tral.
Thus the 16 BSF battalions in Jammu and Kashmir are gradually being withdrawn from counter-insurgency duties and sent back to guard the borders. When the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir broke out in 1989, the Jammu and Kashmir state police and the thinly-deployed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) struggled to cope up with the spiraling violence, and the Indian government deployed the BSF to Jammu and Kashmir to combat Islamic militants. The BSF initially suffered casualties from insurgent attacks but later saw successes, including the arrest of militant leaders, after setting up an intelligence network and working with local civilians.
Details are as under: 1. The current Director General of the BSF is Raman Srivastava. The Republic of India is a federal state in which political power is shared between the federal government (referred to as the Union Government or Central Government) and the states and territories of India, From independence in 1947 to 1965, India s international boundaries were guarded by the local armed police battalions of every border state, with little interstate coordination. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 demonstrated the inadequacies of the existing border management system and led to the formation of the Border Security Force as a unified central agency with the specific mandate of guarding India s international boundaries.
The BSF killed Ghazi Baba—second-in-command of Jaish-e-Mohammed and the mastermind of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack—in August 2003. The Indian government has now decided to implement recommendations to restrict each security agency to its mandate.
Despite the BSF s success in a counter-terrorism role, many in the government felt that this additional burden was leading to a dilution of the BSF s mandate and degrading the force s ability to perform its primary role of guarding the country s borders. It is responsible for producing tear gas & munitions required by the Anti-Riot Forces and a substantial quantity is also exported to other countries. Two Battalions of BSF have been designated as National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) located at Kolkata and Guwahati.
Each SHQ has under its command 3 or more Duty Battalions. Inspr (Retd)Jagjit Singh, Hockey-1967 5.
Presently 186 Battalions are sanctioned to BSF. In total, 595 women constables will be deployed on the border in different phases. The current Director General is Mr.Raman Srivastava who took charge in June 2009, an officer of the Indian Police Service, from the state of Kerala.Srivastava who had held various key posts including that of Executive director (security) of ONGC was caught up in a controversy following his alleged involvement in the ISRO spy case in the 1990s.
This will be a multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled, high-tech force for all types of disasters capable of insertion by air, sea and land. The Border Security Force (BSF) is a border patrol agency of the Government of India.
The BSF s capabilities were used in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 against Pakistani forces in areas where the Regular Forces was thinly spread; BSF troops took part in several operations including the famous Battle of Longewala. The case was dismissed as baseless by the Supreme Court later.
The first batch of 178 constables have already completed successful training and are all set to serve the frontier. The Border Security Force has its Head Quarters at New Delhi and is known as Force Head Quarter (FHQ) headed by a Director General.
In more than nine years between 1 January 2000 and 10 July 2009 a total of 789 people were reported killed, 846 injured and 895 abducted by the Indian BSF. . In fact.
This was in retaliation to massive illegal immigration from Bangladesh into India, for which the Indo-Bangladeshi Barrier is presently underway. In July 2009 Channel 4 News reported that hundreds of Bangladeshis and Indians are indiscriminately killed by the BSF along the Indo-Bangladeshi Barrier. Various Directorates like Operations, Communications & IT, Training, Engineering, General, Law, Provisioning, Administration, Personnel, Medical, Finance etc.
But due to failure of specialized CoBRA battalions in combating Naxals, BSF once again has been asked to assist CRPF in controlling the Naxal menace. In the first of its kind BSF has deployed its first batch of women personnel, at the border long considered a male bastion, to carry out regular frisking of women as well as other duties performed by their male counterparts, including guarding the border. Asst Comdt Mahabir Singh, Wrestling-1985 10.Asst Comdt Subhash Verma, Wrestling-1987 11.Inspr Rajesh Kumar, Wrestling-1990 12.Inspr Sanjay Kumar, Wrestling-1998 MANPADS The Border Security Force operates helicopters, plus additional Utility aircrafts. All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) to keep vigil on the Pakistani activities in the Harami Nala creek,BSF will deploy ATVs for vigil along Harami Nala by year-end.
The battalions are to be equipped and trained for all natural disasters including combating nuclear, biological and chemical disasters. In performance of duties, following honours and awards were earned by the BSF Personnel: (A) MILITARY AWARDS Mahavir Chakra 01 Param Vishisht Seva Medal 01 Kirti Chakra 04 Vir Chakra 11 Ati Vishisht Seva Medal 01 Shaurya Chakra 10 Sena Medal 56 Vishist Seva Medal 10 Mention dispatches 44 (B) CIVIL AWARDS Padma Bhushan 02 Padamshri 05 PM Medal for life saving 43 Arjuna Awards 12 (C) POLICE MEDALS President s Police Medal for Gallantry 206 Police Medal for Gallantry 770 President Police Medal for Distinguished Service 187 Police Medal for Meritorious Service 1784 BSF has got the unique and rare privilege of having 12 ARJUNA AWARDEES on its roll. The BSF claims that the barrier s main purpose is to check illegal immigration, and prevent cross-border terrorism. Kirity Roy, secretary of Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha, a non-governmental human rights organisation based in Kolkata, also said that the border guard officials of Bangladesh and India should immediately find out a mechanism to stop such indiscriminate killing by the Indian Border Security Force. According to statistics projected by Adhikar , a non-government human rights watchdog, some 62 Bangladeshi civilians were killed by the Indian BSF from January 1 to July 11, 2009.
Dy Inspr Gen (Retd)Mohinder Singh, Shooting-1983 9. It is one of the many law enforcement agencies of India. With a strength of 240,000 men in 186 battalions, including women battalions, it is one of the world s largest border patrol forces.
There are 13 such Frontier under which Sector Head Quarters (SHQ) function headed by a DIG each. Sec-in-Command Anil Kumar, B/Ball-1974 8.
Each Directorate is headed by an IG. The 16 Battalions being withdrawn from J&K were supposed to provide R&R to the border deployed Battalions.
They are being replaced by fresh units from the Central Reserve Police Force that have undergone specialized training in counter-terrorism. There are 46 such Sectors.
Dy Comdt (Retd)Balwant Singh, Volleyball-1972 7. Over 100 of them have been deployed on the highly volatile Indo-Pak border, while around 60 will be deployed on the Indo-Bangla border.
Comdt (Retd)Nripjit Singh, Volleyball-1962 2. This is the first time a tainted officer has been made the DG of such an elite force.
It was also reported that most victims were innocent farmers who unwittingly approached the heavily fortified fence. The BSF was the brain child of its founding father Sh KF Rustamji,IP, the first Director General of BSF.
Like most paramilitary units of India, the BSF is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The BSF raided Baba s hideout in Srinagar and he was killed in the ensuing gunbattle.
BSF to get two hovercraft for coastal surveillance. BSF has often been accused by Bangladesh government of incursions into Bangladesh territory, and indiscriminate shooting of civilians along the India-Bangladesh borders. The total strength of each battalion will be approximately 1,158.
Dy Comdt (Retd)Udham Singh, Hockey-1965 3. for BSF the war on eastern front had started well before the war actually broke out in Dec 71.
Asst Comdt (Retd)Ajit Pal Singh, Hockey-1970 6. Dogs from other CPOs and State Police are sent to National Training Centre for Dogs (NTCD) to be trained in infantry patrol, explosive & tracking etc. A unique organisation, the only one of its kind in India, is also manned and managed by BSF.
Dy Comdt (Retd)Praveen Kumar, Athletic-1967 4. Established on December 1, 1965, it is a component of the paramilitary forces of India (PMF) and its primary role is to guard India s international borders during peacetime and also prevent transnational crime.
Five major training institutions and 10 Subsidiary Training Centres (STCs) are imparting ab-initio as well as in-service training to its ranks and other CPOs/SPOs including IPS Probationers. BSF is the only paramilitary force which has its own Air Wing, Water Wing and Artillery Regiments which extend support to the General Duty Battalions in their operations during peace/war. The BSF also has a national level school for breeding and training of dogs. Currently BSF has 186 battalions.
The Eastern Theater is looked after by Spl DG HQ at Kolkata and the Western Theater is looked after by Spl DG HQ at Chandigarh.Field Formations in BSF are headed by an IG and are known as Frontiers Head Quarters (FtrHQ).
