Border Security Force

Border Security Force is the chief Indian border that guards an organization on its border with Pakistan and Bangladesh. 

BSF is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) of India that was hoisted in the wake of the 1965 Indo-Pak War on 1 December 1965. The statement of the Border Security Force Act, 1968: "for certifying the security of the borders of India and for matters connected therewith." 

A preeminent organization, like BSF, is also considered the World’s Largest Guarding Organization that has been titled the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories.

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An eminent organization carries various acts and rules, which we will discuss on this page. Also, we will throw light on the recent highlights on amendments made so far.

Along with this, we will understand the following significant parts:

• History of Border Security Force and Their Officers Rank

• What is the structure and commands of the INDIAN ARMY?

• The rank and insignia of Border Security Force

BSF - History of Border Security Force and their Officers Rank

History

Since freedom, the assurance of India's international boundaries has been the obligation of nearby police belonging to each border state, with minimal inter-state coordination. Nevertheless, in the course of the 1965 War, Pakistan attacked Sardar Post, Chhar Bet, and Beria Bet on 9 April 1965 in Kutch. This attack uncovered the deficiency of the State Armed Police to adapt to armed animosity. Therefore, post the conflict, the government created the Border Security Force as a unified central agency with the specific command of shielding India's boundaries. This act got more prominent cohesion in border security. Since it was a new force, the officials must be deputed or enlisted from outside to fill the different opportunities at different levels until the force's own cadre matured enough. Remembering the above mentioned, emergency commissioned officers and SS officials of the Indian Army were drafted in enormous numbers in the power alongside IPS officials who were deputed to the force for high-level appointments. 

The BSF's capacities were utilized in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 against Pakistani forces in regions where the Regular Forces were meagerly spread; BSF troops participated in a few activities including the renowned Battle of Longewala. Indeed, for the BSF the conflict on eastern front had begun a long time before the conflict really broke out in December 1971. BSF had prepared, upheld and formed part of Mukti Bahini and had entered East Pakistan before the actual hostilities breakout. BSF had assumed a vital part in the Liberation of Bangladesh which Indira Gandhi and Sheik Mujibur Rehman had additionally recognized.

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Rank and Insignia of Border Security Force

BSF - Engagements 

Below, you will find the list of engagements, BSF was involved in:

• Indo-Pakistani War -  1971

• Operation Blue Star; Operation Black Thunder

• Insurgency in Punjab; Insurgency in J & Kashmir

• Operation Vijay - Kargil War (Battle of the Point 4875) - 7, July 1999 (Won under Para, Vir Chakra Winner, Capt. Vikram Batra).

• Bangladeshi-Indian border skirmishes - 2001

• Operation Parakram – India-Pakistan Standoff - 2001–2002

• India-Pakistan Border skirmishes - 2013 

• India–Pakistan border skirmishes - 2014–15 

• India–Pakistan border skirmishes - 2016–2018

• India–Pakistan border skirmishes - 2019 

About BSF Organization

• The HQ of the Border Security Force (BSF) is in New Delhi; this force is also known as Force Headquarters (FHQ) led by a Director-General. Different Directorates like Operations, Communications and IT, Training, Engineering, General, Law, Provisioning, Administration, Personnel, Armaments, Medical, Finance and so forth work under the DG. Every Directorate is headed by an IG. 

• The Eastern Theater is cared for by Spl DG HQ (Eastern Command) at Kolkata and the Western Theater is cared for by Spl DG HQ (Western Command) at Chandigarh. Field Formations in BSF are going by an IG and are known as Frontiers Headquarters (FtrHQ). There are 13 such Frontiers under which Sector Headquarters (SHQ) work headed by a DIG each. Each SHQ has under its order 4–5 Infantry Battalion, alongside connections of gunnery, air, and water wings. By and by 186 Battalions were authorized to BSF. Five significant preparing organizations and 10 Subsidiary Training Centers (STCs) are giving abdominal muscle initio just as in-administration preparing to its positions and other CPOs/SPOs including IPS Probationers. 

• BSF is the lone Central Armed Police Force to have its own Air Wing and big guns regiment, and ITBP to have a Water Wing. This load of particular wings supports the General Duty Battalions in their tasks. The Financial Adviser of the BSF has been an Indian Revenue Service official of the position of Joint Secretary and furthermore has Dy Advisers from the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Indian Civil Account Service, and Indian Defense Account Service. 

• The BSF likewise has a public-level school for reproducing and training dogs. Dogs from other CPOs and State Police are sent to National Training Center for Dogs (NTCD) to be trained in infantry watch, location of explosives, following, and so forth. 

• The BSF keeps a Tear Smoke Unit (TSU), which is remarkable in India. The TSU is liable for creating poisonous gas weapons needed for the Anti-Riot Forces. It likewise sends out a significant amount to different nations. 

• Three brigades of the BSF, situated at Kolkata, Guwahati, and Patna, are assigned as the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Every brigade keeps 18 independent expert inquiry and salvage groups of 45 staff each, including engineers, specialists, electrical experts, canine crews and doctors, and paramedics. The foundation of every force is 1,158 staff. The NDRF is a multi-disciplinary, multi-gifted, innovative power for a wide range of calamities and can send to catastrophes via air, ocean, and land. These brigades are prepared and prepared for all catastrophic events including fighting Chemical, Biological Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) calamities. 

• Since 2014, As a piece of modernization, BSF likewise began introducing infra-red, thermal imagers, aerostats for elevated reconnaissance, ground sensors, radars, sonar frameworks to get riverine borders, fiber-optic sensor and laser shaft interruption identification frameworks on explicit areas of the boundary with Pakistan just as Bangladesh. These Hi-tech frameworks are introduced in regions where spiked wire fencing couldn't be introduced because of slippery landscape or marshy riverine topography. The biggest segment of this framework is situated at Dhubri, Assam, where the Brahmaputra stream enters Bangladesh.

Border Security Force - Acts and Rules

In the above text, we stated the Border Security Force Act 1968, an act that provides for the constitution and regulation of the Armed Force of the Union for ascertaining the security of borders of India and all the matters related to it.

So, there is a short title and commencement of the BSF Act, 1968 along with the definitions related to the BSF force.

Short Title and Commencement - BSF Act, 1986

This shall come into force on date such as the central government may or in the notification by the Official Gazette.

BSF Acts

• Battalion  -  A unit of force constituted by the central government.

• Chief Law Officer or Law Officer - Appointed by the central government.

• Civil Offence - An offence prosecutable in a criminal court.

• Civil Prison - A jail or or a place used for the custody of a criminal prisoner under the Provisions Act, 1984, or under any law for the time being in force.

• Commandant - This term is used in any provision of this Act that references to any unit in the force 

What is the Structure and Commands of the INDIAN ARMY?

Indian Army is the fourth largest army in the world that is headquartered at Indian Capital New Delhi. The supreme of the three armies is the President of India and the top Army Officer is the Army Chief. The Indian Army is divided into seven following commands:

Recent Highlights on the BSF: 2021

Below are the latest facts about BSF:

• The Assam Rifles organization safeguards the border with Myanmar and the Special Service Bureau (SSB) replaced the BSF alongside the border with Bhutan. 

• Surjeet Singh Deswal (IPS) is the current Director General of the Border security Force.

• Manoj Mukund Naravane is an Indian Army Chief since December 31, 2019.

• After the creation of the BSF, K F Rustamji, from the Indian Police Service, was appointed as the principal Director General of BSF.

• BSF Inspector General Sonali Mishra will be the new IG of the BSF's Punjab frontier headquartered in Jalandhar. She will be the first woman commander to head the force's formation along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab, which is vulnerable to narcotics and arms smuggling.

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