Amid widespread protest from various organisations from across Nagaland against the fencing of the Indo-Myanmar border and the lifting of Free Movement Regime, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday evening asserted that the “Modi government is committed to building an impenetrable border.”

In a post on X, Amit Shah affirmed that the Government of India has decided to construct a fence along the entire 1643-kilometer-long border that India shares with Myanmar. “To facilitate better surveillance, a patrol track along the border will also be paved,” he has said.

Further, the Union Minister informed that a 10 km stretch in Moreh, Manipur, has already been fenced and two pilot projects of fencing through a Hybrid Surveillance System (HSS) are under execution. They will fence a stretch of 1 km each in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. Additionally, fence works covering approximate 20 km in Manipur have also been approved, and the work will start soon, Amit Shah said.