<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Chief of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh has said they will install 5,500 security cameras along the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“The central government has “sanctioned ₹30 crore for this procurement,” he said on Wednesday addressing the annual press conference in Delhi, reports the Hindustan Times.</div><div><br></div><div>They have been sanctioned the fund for surveillance cameras, drones and other monitoring gadgets, Singh said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have got around 5,500 CCTV surveillance cameras and some other gadgets and the Union home ministry has sanctioned a ₹30-crore fund for this procurement,” Singh said. Soon, he said, 5,500 security cameras will be installed in the front areas, both at borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</div><div><br></div><div>While terming the use of drones from across the border as a ‘major challenge’ for which they don’t have a foolproof solution yet, Singh said that BSF has developed “low-cost” technology solutions for monitoring infiltration, drone activity and other crimes at India’s border with Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will find solutions in the times to come and we are increasingly detecting and killing the drones,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We have tried to enhance the surveillance in border areas in a big way. This entails use of surveillance cameras and drones on the western and eastern theatres (Pakistan and Bangladesh fronts respectively).”</div><div><br></div><div>India and Bangladesh share 4,096 km land border, of which 1,880 km is shared with the northeastern states of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram. Source: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>