A record 60,000 Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed across 26 frontier districts to prevent the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) from illegally pushing people—including women and children—into Bangladesh territory.
Divided into four shifts for round-the-clock vigilance, this marks the largest simultaneous border deployment in the BGB's history. Local residents are also actively assisting Bangladesh's border guards in these resistance efforts. Between last Wednesday and Saturday alone, the BGB successfully foiled 21 push-in attempts by the BSF, preventing over 200 individuals from being forced across the border.
Against this volatile backdrop, the 57th Director General-level talks between the BGB and BSF are set to take place in New Delhi from June 8 to 11. The BGB stated that the four-day conference will prioritize discussions on the border situation, illegal push-ins, the killings of Bangladeshi citizens, and overall border management.
Senior BGB officials confirmed that the 60,000 personnel are patrolling and conducting intelligence operations along 4,487 kilometers of the border, which connects to five Indian states. To strengthen these efforts, plainclothes BGB members have also stepped up undercover surveillance.Sources at BGB headquarters noted that vulnerable border points have been identified to maximize security.
The 26 districts under heightened surveillance include Chuadanga, Meherpur, Jashore, Satkhira, Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Feni, Moulvibazar, Mymensingh, Netrokona, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Khagrachari, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Joypurhat, Cumilla, Sylhet, Habiganj, Sunamganj, Chapainawabganj, Naogaon, Nilphamari, Panchagarh, Brahmanbaria, and Sherpur.
