Fresh anti-insurgency BSF operation in Tripura

AGARTALA, January 19: The Border Security Force on Friday launched a special anti-insurgency operation 'Operation Sakriya' (active) to flush out militants and also to establish a sense of security among the people living in the border areas, reports UNI. Stating this, BSF's Tripura, Cachar and Mizoram (TCM) Frontier Inspector General Arvind Ranjan told newsmen that the week-long special operation would be conducted along the Indo-Bangla border with Tripura and in the terrorist prone areas. Senior BSF officials and battalion commandant would supervise the operations, which would continue uninterrupted for the next one week, he added. The IG said the BSF had formulated a new strategy for Border Management along the 1333.5-km-long TCM frontier, second largest establishing a sense of security among border population, a wide range of activities in the form of civic action had been undertaken by the force, mostly in hilly and dense forests besides, difficult surface communication.