Union home secretary reviews checkpost work

FORBESGANJ: Union home secretary R K Singh and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) DG Pranay Sahay reviewed the work going on the integrated check post (ICP) at Jogbani. The ICP will help facilitate trade between India and Nepal and also keep an eye on trans-border smuggling and other such nefarious activities.
The ICP at Jogbani is the third such check post along India’s borders with Nepal and Pakistan.One such ICP is at Wagah on India-Pakistan border in western side. Two other ICPs are coming up at Raxaul and Jogbani in Bihar. Singh and Sahay are believed to have discussed a slew of new problems cropping up in Nepal.
Those who were present at the meeting included Araria superintendent of police (SP) Shivdeep Lande, 24th SSB commandant A K C Singh and a host of officials. Singh told newsmen that the ICP at Jogbani would become functional by the end of 2012. He said the government was seized with the recurrent problem of encroachment of ‘No-man’s-land’ alongside Bihar-Nepal border, and said officials on both the sides regularly met to address the problem. The home secretary, however, parried questions about the resurgence of ultras activities on Nepal side following the political instability prevailing in the landlocked Himalayan nation.
It is significant that the IG of SSB, Patna, Aditya Mishra, and Purnia SSB DIG, P K Singh, made a visit to the border early this week, and took stock of the situation.