Overview
- At an investiture in New Delhi on Tuesday, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan urged the Sashastra Seema Bal to restore its original task of engaging border communities to generate goodwill and human intelligence.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs is promoting a 'quadrangular' security model that pairs border forces, state officials, central agencies and local residents to coordinate responses along the India–Nepal and India–Bhutan frontiers.
- SSB officials said the force is rapidly expanding technology use, including facial‑recognition cameras, CCTV, radars and drones, to monitor the long, unfenced borders and detect smugglers and traffickers.
- The investiture honoured 18 personnel with gallantry medals and five with distinguished‑service medals, and Home Minister Amit Shah formally commended the SSB for rescue and relief work during recent floods in Nepal.
- The changes target stretches near Assam because of its gateway role to the Northeast, and officials say early implementation meetings have begun though detailed operational roll‑out remains in the developing stage.