New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Along the Indo-Bangladesh border, the Border Guard Bangladesh(BGB) has intensified security on their side of the border by installing more surveillance equipment, setting up additional border out posts(BOPs), and using drones, officials on the ground said. On Tuesday(August 5), it will be one year to the day when Bangladesh plunged into a political turmoil forcing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country and seek asylum in India. An official aware of the matter said that despite the biannual meeting of the chiefs of BSF and BGB in February 2025, there are about a dozen sites where the two forces are yet to reach a compromise on building a fence within 150m of the border. "There are nearly a dozen sites where BGB has raised an objection despite the two forces agreeing for the construction of the same during the previous government. The work is still stalled at the sites and despite the DG level meeting in India earlier this year, nothing has been resolved. There is no animosity but the current regime has refused to acknowledge these construction works within 150m that was approved by the previous government. The matter will again be taken up in the meeting schedule in Dhaka sometime next month." A second official said though flag meetings are being held in the junior sector commandant level, the most recent standoff is related to Bangladesh's refusal to take their nationals back at some places. The official said that at least 1,400 Bangladesh nationals have been handed to BGB personnel from the BSF frontiers of Tripura, North Bengal, Meghalaya, and South Bengal. The number for the Guwahati and Mizoram-Cachar frontier was not immediately available, but officials said the number is lesser than that in the above-mentioned four frontiers. West Bengal shares the longest border with Bangladesh at 2216.7 km. "Of the 1400, around 920 illegal nationals handed back to BGB at Tripura this year include those who were deported from Gujarat, Maharashtra and other states. Others were apprehended at the border while trying to enter India illegally. There has been no formal deportation from the West Bengal frontier of people caught in other states," the official said. "Those handed back to BGB at the Bangladesh border along West Bengal, were people caught entering India illegally or living illegally near the border. Though BGB has been checking papers and taking them back, there have been a few instances of this leading to a problem," the official said....