BSF INCREASINGLY USING DRONES TO COUNTER NEW-AGE CHALLENGES

Drones are increasingly becoming a part of the BSF's daily operations, be it for intercepting intruder flying machines or using these hitech night-vision gadgets to outsmart smugglers.

- RAHUL CHHABRA

While on the frontier with Pakistan, the BSF has been regularly intercepting these flying machines to curb drug smuggling in Punjab, the guardians of the border on the Bangladesh frontier are using hi-tech drones to curb smuggling of animals across the border.

Within a span of a month, the BSF has foiled another attempt of cattle smuggling on the India-Bangladesh International Border and caught seven cattle. The fresh success was achieved by the sixth Battalion of the BSF under Jalpaiguri Sector of North Bengal Frontier in West Bengal's Coochbehar district on 15 November when, acting on a tip-off, the drone with night vision was used to keep a close watch on all the suspected areas of cattle smuggling in the Border Outpost Oran.