The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is
reported to have taken decision to complete
fencing along the India-Bangladesh border
by the end of 2007, according to Telegraph.
Reports added that nearly 400 km of
Tripura’s 856-km-long border with Bangladesh
has already been fenced and the target
is to complete fencing of 736 km by
the end of December 2007.
“The Union home ministry has taken
a serious view of the obstructionist
tactics and ma-de it clear to a delegation
from Tripura that fencing would be completed
at any cost,” a source said. The MHA
had reportedly sent a proposal to the
Union Finance Ministry for the sanction
of Rupees 1200 crore in order to install
floodlights along the entire stretch
of the border with Bangladesh.
Separately, the Union Government has decided
to reject Justice Jeevan Reddy’s report
on scrapping the Armed Forces Special
Powers Act (AFSPA) following Army’s
decision against dilution of its powers
in the North East India. | 
