Power cuts setback to border watch through cameras

A central command room has been created at SSBs headquarters in Delhi to give them real-time information. The 50,000-personnel SSB guards 1,751-km Nepal border and 699-km Bhutan border.

There is a recording facility also and we can store the footage for 7-10 days. But all this has not been possible till now due to erratic power supply in the state. We are thinking of alternate modes of power supply also, said a senior official.

The Ministry of Home Affairs had taken several steps to strengthen security along the porous border that has been the preferable route for terrorists,people involved in human trafficking and drug smuggling which includes installing 24 surveillance cameras along border areas. This is the first time that the video feed will be linked to Delhi. There is a problem of maintaining these cameras. Whenever connection breaks down we have to ask for help from our Lucknow office and it takes a lot of time, said the official.