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As galore arsenic 878 “infiltrators” were caught on the India-Myanmar borderline implicit the past 2 years, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025).
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said successful a written reply that 9.2 km of the full 1,643-km borderline with Myanmar had been fenced truthful far.
The reply stated that from 2014 to 2025 (till November 30), the fig of infiltrators arrested on the Myanmar borderline stood astatine 45, 32, 20, 15, 39, 57, 58, 73, 173, 212, 441 and 437 respectively.
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FMR regulated
In February 2024, months aft the 2023 taste unit successful Manipur, Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the full Myanmar borderline volition beryllium fenced and the Free Movement Regime (FMR) on the north-eastern borderline volition beryllium scrapped. However, FMR, which allows cross-border question of radical to a definite region without visas and passports, continued but was regulated. In December 2024, a caller model was implemented, nether which the territorial limits of FMR was reduced from 16 km to 10 km. As galore arsenic 43 designated exit and introduction gates were operationalised to modulate the question of radical and biometrics and gross passes were introduced.
Over 5,000 from Bangladesh
The reply besides added that successful 2024 and 2025, the fig of infiltrators who were arrested on the Bangladesh borderline stood astatine 2,525 and 2,556 respectively. Between the years 2014 and 2023, the fig of specified arrests stood astatine 2,160, 2,809, 1,601, 907, 884, 1,109, 955, 1,208, 2,076, and 2,617 respectively.
The reply added that 93.25% of the India-Pakistan borderline – which is 2,289.66-km-long – has been physically fenced. The remaining 154.524 km, i.e. 6.75% of the border, is unfenced. It added that of the 4,096.70-km India-Bangladesh border, 3,239.92 km – 79.08% – has been physically fenced. The remaining 856.778 km, i.e. 20.92% of the border, is unfenced.
