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INDIA - DEFENCE -
BORDER SECURITY FORCE |
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Date-wise Events |
- December 01, 1965:
Established on this day, it is a paramilitary force charged
with guarding India's land border during peace time and
preventing transnational crime.
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Description |
- The Border Security Force (BSF) is a Border Guarding
Force of India.
- It is a Union Government Agency under the administrative
control of Ministry of Home Affairs.
- It is one of many law enforcement agency of India.
- It currently stands as the world's largest border
guarding force.
- K.F. Rustomji, the BSF's first Director General is
referred to as founding father of the BSF.
- From independence in 1947 to 1965, the protection of
India's international boundaries was the responsibility of
local police battalions belonging to each border state, with
little interstate coordination.
- The inadequacies observed and experienced during
the Indo-Pak war of 1965, led to the establishment of BSF as
a unified central agency with the specific mandate of
guarding India's international boundaries.
- BSF had played a very important role in Liberation
of Bangladesh.
- BSF has more recently been given the task in
counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.
- The Border Security Force has its Head Quarters at New
Delhi and is headed by a Director General.
- BSF is the only Indian paramilitary force to have its
own Air Wing, Marine Wing and artillery regiments, which
support the General Duty Battalions in their operations.
- The BSF also has a national level school for breeding
and training of dogs.
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