India plans to strengthen its surveillance along its border with Myanmar to check drugs and arms smuggling, besides movement of militants, officials said, reports Zee News on April 16.
An official told the newspaper they would further strengthen the security along the India's border with Myanmar to check smuggling of drugs, arms and other contraband items, and the vigil would also be reinforced to stop trans-border movement of extremists and other “inimical elements."
He said: "It is a tough task to guard the unfenced mountainous borders with a full-proof security. Additional Assam Rifles troopers would also be deployed along the Myanmar borders." Four northeastern Indian states - Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km) - share 1,643-km unfenced border with Myanmar.