BSF is celebrating its 59th Raising Day on 1st December 2023 with great aplomb being the first line of defence on India Pakistan and India Bangladesh border by dominating the International Border with high degree of professionalism.
BSF Jammu is manning about 192 km of International border with Pakistan and also deployed on line of control along with Indian army. The year 2023 witnessed manifold challenges from the counterpart like Drone activities, unprovoked firing and Smuggling attempts, but true to its tradition, BSF Jammu thwarted all attempts of adversary and foiled their nefarious designs.
In different successful operations on International Border, the ever vigilant troops of BSF neutralised three Pakistani smugglers who tried to violate the IB with the intention to smuggle the consignment of narcotics from across the Border into Indian Territory. Apart from this, BSF troops seized about 35.784 Kgs of narcotics on International border in the current year.
It is worth mentioning here that jammu frontier won the “Maharana Pratap Trophy” for best Frontier in Border Management and “Ashwani Trophy” for best Frontier in sports and training activities for the year 2023 which were presented by Hon’ble Home minister Shri Amit shah on 1st Dec 2023 on BSF raising day function at Hazaribagh.
During the year, several Civic Action programme catering to the needs of border population were conducted by the BSF Battalions where medicines and other needy items were distributed. Besides, skill development programmme and pre recruitment training for local youths were also conducted. The border population was also made aware of the Drone Ops carried out by Pak based ANE’s and many Drone awareness programme were organized by BSF with border population.
Efforts of Inspector Genearal DK Boora , Jammu frontier with his team of officers, SO’s & men paved the way for marked enhancement in the fitness & professionalism of our border men resultantly Frontier Jammu has performed exceedingly well & earned praiseworthy positions in the Inter Frontier sports Competitions