Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah addressed the Land Border Districts' Superintendents of Police Conference-2026 in New Delhi, outlining the Modi government's comprehensive border security strategy. The conference was attended by Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Shri Nityanand Rai and Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Home Secretary, Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Directors General of Police of border states, and several senior officials.
Shah announced that the Modi government is fencing the 1,610-km-long India-Myanmar border at a cost of ₹31,000 crore as part of a broader initiative to make border security impenetrable. The government has increased border infrastructure investment by 400 percent and is adopting a scientific approach to border security. A key initiative is the creation of a quadrangular security grid that brings together border guarding forces, state and district administration, relevant stakeholders of Government of India, and local citizens, transforming India's approach from reactive to proactive security.
The government's objectives include preventing proxy war, illegal infiltration, radicalization, narcotics trafficking, smuggling, drone-related threats, cybercrime, organized crime, and demographic changes. Shah stated that in the next three years, the government will inflict serious damage on the narcotics menace and achieve victory over it, while also building a strong system to make the country completely infiltration-free.
Under the Vibrant Villages Programme, Prime Minister Modi has termed the country's last village as its first village, with efforts focused on preventing migration, creating jobs, and ensuring 100% implementation of government welfare schemes. The Prime Minister has also launched the Demography Mission to study demographic changes, identify abnormal factors contributing to demographic growth, and recommend measures to prevent such changes in the future. The government is committed to curb unnatural demographic growth caused by abnormal factors with a ruthless approach, noting that the primary cause of demographic changes in border areas is infiltration.
Shah emphasized that the conference has institutionalized the comprehensive approach to border security and that similar holistic approaches will be applied to coastal border security in the future. The conference will involve discussions on problems related to border security, addressing concerns for their resolution, and formulating appropriate policy measures. He highlighted that India's border security system, based on the vision of a Smart Border, will become the most modern in the world in the coming years, moving from an isolated border outpost system toward an integrated security grid.