BSF

(BORDER SECURITY FORCE)

"DUTY UNTO
DEATH"
INTRODUCTION:
THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO
BORER SECURITY FORCE.
AS INDIAN SOLDIERS
PROTECT US IT’S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO

RESPECT THEM.
SO THIS BOOK MEANS A LOT FOR ME!!
HOPE YOU ENJOY
THIS BOOK AND YOU GET PROPER INFORMATION ABOUT INDIAN SPECIAL
FORCES.

--PRANAV ZOPE
CONTENT:

1. HISTORY

2. FORMATION

3. ROLE

4. DIRECTOR GENERAL

ENJOY THE BOOK,

AND GRAB THE INFORMATION!!

HISTORY:

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 Until 1965, India's borders with Pakistan were guarded by the
State Armed Police Battalion. Pakistan attacked Sardar Post,
Chahar Bet and Beria Bet on 9 April 1965 in Kutch. The attack
revealed that the State Armed Police Battalion was inadequate in
countering the armed offensive, which led the Government of
India to feel the need for a Special Border Security Force under the
Center, which would be an armed and trained force and
international along the Pakistan border. Will monitor the border.
As a result of the recommendations of the Committee of
Secretaries, the Border Security Force came into existence on 1
December 1965 and Shri KF Rustomjee was its first head and
founder. Presently Shri Vivek Kumar Johri is the Director General
of Border Security Force.
Nation-states are defined and periodically re-defined by their
geographical, social, political, cultural and military borders.
At the outset it is important to remember that these borders are
both real and imaginary at the same time and in general the public
consciousness of them belies the practical difficulty of delineating
and guarding them. In sum, politico-geographical borders are only
represented by the maps and textbooks which condition their
formal
knowledge received by society. More often than not the
geographical
border at the ground level is radically different from how it appears
in the documents which pre-condition public memory. Nothing

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illustrates this more than the history and experience of independent
India’s foremost group of Bordermen – the Border Security Force
(BSF). A lot on this has been said in the following pages for the
discerning reader. In the matter of national borders the armed
forces
of a country, including its Paramilitary Forces, are as usual guided
by the political leadership of that country which itself undergoes
periodic transformations. In these conditions of historical flux the
work of forces, like the BSF raised in 1965 with the specific
purpose
of manning the Indian borders as the first line of defence against
infiltration, smuggling and military assault, can hardly be said to
comprise an enviable job. For the BSF, and its counterparts in
India’s
neighbouring countries, the border is a live and often unfriendly
unstable entity difficult to control and tame. No one knows this
better than the hardy and enterprising men and officers of the BSF
battalions who spend the whole year at the Border Out Posts
(BOPs)
often with just their weapons and wild animals for company. The
BOPs are established in regions which experience extreme
weather.
FORMATION:

Before the BSF was formed the police forces of the Indian states

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 which were located on the Indian borders were entrusted with
the task of gaurding the borders. In times of emergency these
forces were buttressed by the Indian Army and the Central Reserve
Police personnel who were rushed ad hoc to border areas under
particular threat. These police forces dealt with trans-border crimes
like cattle theft, abductions, murders, smuggling, land disputes
and incursions made by foreign troops. The system of border
policing used by these forces, which would be inherited and
refined
by the BSF later, was based on setting up border outposts at
regular
distances or at sensitive points and possible day and night
patrolling
by armed border guards. It is said that these state police forces
gave their best in the circumstances created by the division of
India in 1947 which opened the Indian borders to a serious threat
of infiltration in the post-colonial context. In the ultimate analysis,
and as the experience of border protection in Kashmir and Gujarat
proved, these forces proved incapable of ensuring satisfactory
protection of the Indian borders against a politically and militarily
determined adversary of secular India. These forces were
understaffed, carried obsolete weapons, were financially not well
endowed, improperly trained and not sufficiently disciplined for
the task assigned to them, lacked sufficient reserves, had a large
proportion of older men whose mental alertness and physical
fitness left a lot to be desired and finally, too heterogeneous for
the Army to co-ordinate its actions with1
. The inadequacies of the
border policing arrangements present in India, highlighted by the
border war with China in 1962 inter alia, came to the fore in the
border crises of 1965 the year in which the first full scale declared
war between India and Pakistan occurred. Available literature on
the subject suggests that after the death of Pandit Nehru,
independent India’s first and long serving Prime Minister, in 1964,

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 it seemed to outsiders that India was headed into an uncertain
political future. This gave some opportunities to Pakistan, whose
attempt to seize the Kashmir Valley had been foiled by the Indian
Army and the Kashmiri people in 1947-48, on the borders.
Consequently Pakistani forces tried to re-draw the border between
India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch. The focus of the
Pakistani
Army offensive in this region of Gujarat was the Kanjarkot area
guarded by the State Reserve Police (SRP) of Gujarat. When the
Pakistani incursions began in January 1965, the SRP proved weak
against its better armed adversary and some companies of the
Central Reserve Police (CRP – later CRPF) were rushed to the
area of operations to deal with the situation. These too proved
unequal to the task and this state of affairs emboldened the
invaders
who attacked, in Brigade Strength, the Sardar Post on 09 April
1965
in a surprise move. Finally the Indian Army had to be deployed in
some strength to repulse the invasion and restore the Indian
national
border in Gujarat. These events speeded up the process which
produced the BSF within a year of their having elapsed.
These warlike events were observed with a strategic seriousness
by the mild mannered Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri which
probably surprised those who might have thought him incapable
of military firmness. In the event, the diminutive PM proved his
detractors wrong. In January 1965, under Premier Shastri’s overall
supervision, the Emergency Committee of Secretaries set up a
study group to examine “the possibility of streamlining and
reducing the multiplicity of paramilitary forces in border areas.”2
The policy initiative for the creation of a single central force
tasked
with the protection of India’s long problematic borders had begun.

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 This Study Group, led by Lt. Gen. Kumaramangalam, the
ViceChief of the Indian Army, submitted its report to the
government
in April, 1965. This report was examined by General J.N.
Chaudhuri and Shri L.P. Singh, the Home Secretary at the time,
who together prepared the blue print for establishing the BSF.

ROLE:
Security of Indian borders and resolving matters connected
therewith.

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 The functions of Seasubal are divided as follows:

1. In Peace:
To promote a sense of security among the people living in the
border areas.
Prevention of trans-border crimes and prohibiting unauthorized
entry and withdrawal into Indian territory.
Prevention of smuggling and other illegal activities. For the last
few rains, Border Security Force has also been deployed for anti-
insurgency and internal security duty.

2. In the event of war:

Stay in low danger areas until the main attack develops in a
particular area and it is felt that the Border Security Force is
competent to deal with the local situation.
Units of the Border Security Force can be deployed in special area
even in case of war to free the army for offensive operations.
Even if a large attack is expected and the Border Security Force is
not able to deal with such an attack, the army can be expected to
strengthen the Border Security Force by providing artillery or
other support or Border Security Force Relieve him from his role.
The men and officers of the BSF know this from
experience, something which cannot be recreated in any
classroom.

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 DIRECTOR GENERAL (IN 2020):
Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rakesh Asthana
has been appointed the chief of the Border Security Force (BSF)
and V.S.K. Kaumudi the special secretary (internal security) in the
home ministry, according to a personnel ministry order issued on
Monday.

At present, Asthana is working as the director-general of the

Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.

The BSF has been working without a regular chief since March
after incumbent V.K. Johri was repatriated to Madhya Pradesh. He
later took over as the director-general of the state police.

S.S. Deswal, the chief of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, has been
holding the additional charge as the director-general of BSF since
March 11.

Asthana’s tenure as the director-general of BSF would be up to

July 31, 2021, i.e. the date of his superannuation, the order said.

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Asthana, a 1984-batch officer of IPS, is also holding the additional
charge of director-general of the Narcotics Control Bureau.

Kaumudi has been appointed the special secretary (internal

security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, up to November 30,
2022, i.e. the date of his superannuation, the order said.

Kaumudi, a 1986-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, is

presently working as the director-general of the Bureau of Police
Research and Development.
His batchmate from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, Md Jawed
Akhtar has been
appointed the director-general of Fire Services,
Civil Defence
and Home Guards.

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