Excellent piece Mr. Sengupta, but what is the solution? Process of fencing is being resisted regularly by Bangladesh Rifles ever since the project began. Any stern action envisaged does not get the required support from Government circles nor from the State Government. It appears that the BSF is rather handicapped. Arbitrary and unprovoked firing by BDR has caused casualties on the Border outposts for quite a few years now especially after first big action by BDR on Mahendraganj (Meghalaya) border resulting in barbaric killing of BSF jawans a couple of years back. Indian forces were not apparently, allowed to retaliate for unknown reasons. Still the credit goes to BSF to withstand onslaughts from across the border and still being asked to keep calm on the pretext of honouring the much used phrase of 'Big Brother'. It is high time that the higher echelons take stock of the situation in the right perspective so that the Force is not demoralised. Vinod Tuli
