SSB enhances security next to Doklam area 

SSB enhances security next to Doklam area 

Context

Political changes in Nepal and the growing Chinese influence in the neighbouring country are some of the major challenges for the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the Central armed force deployed along the Nepal-Bhutan border.

 Plans to set up new border posts

The SSB said it was “more alert” and was enhancing its strength and establishing new border posts in Sikkim along the Bhutan frontier, next to the Doklam region that recently saw a standoff between Indian and Chinese forces.

Porous Nepal border

SSB Director General Rajni Kant Mishra, while interacting with journalists on the occasion of the force’s 54th Raising Day, shared a presentation on “operational challenges” which said 27% of pillars were missing along the Nepal border.

BoPs (border outposts)

• The location and land for the new BoP that would come up in Yuksom in Sikkim had been cleared by the government and it should not be seen as a development coming in the aftermath of the Doklam standoff
• With the establishment of the battalion headquarters and the BoP, almost 1,000 more troops would be deployed in the area