BSF, BGB to hold CEO level meeting next week
India and Bangladesh share a border of 4,096 km. File. | Photo credit: PTI
The first round of biennial Director General level talks between the Border Guard Forces of India and Bangladesh is likely to be held in Delhi from June 8 to 11, government sources confirmed.
It will be the first such meeting since the new Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government was formed in the neighboring country and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in West Bengal for the first time.
The directors general of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will meet amid the West Bengal government’s ongoing “detect, remove and deport” drive against unregistered Bangladeshi migrants.
The meeting, originally scheduled for February, was postponed due to the West Bengal assembly elections.
Over the past week, Home Minister Amit Shah visited forward areas along the Rajasthan-Gujarat border and identified demographic change and radicalization as key security challenges. In his next visit to the border areas of Tripura on June 5 and 6 and West Bengal around June 14 and 15, he is likely to review border security and also discuss infiltration-related issues with officials.
The BSF is likely to raise issues related to cross-border crimes, attacks on BSF personnel and Indian civilians by Bangladesh-based criminals, construction of single-line fencing and action against Indian Insurgent Groups (IIGs) operating in Bangladesh.
In 2023 and 2024, the number of people injured in rogue attacks along the Bangladesh border was 74 and 72. The BGB, during the last two CEO-level meetings, expressed concern over the “illegal push” of individuals, including Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN), into Bangladesh by the BSF.
In 2024, as many as 1,049 undocumented persons were apprehended while leaving the country through the Bangladeshi border. In 2025, the BSF apprehended more than 4,000 undocumented persons trying to leave the country through the border, a government official said.
Officially recorded as “exfiltration”, the movement of illegal migrants without passports and visas across the Bangladeshi border is not new, the official added.
“We have instructions not to let any illegal migrant into the country, but if undocumented people want to leave, we do not stop them. Their biometrics and other details are recorded before departure. If they have managed to get identity documents like Aadhaar or PAN cards, we will write to the relevant authorities to cancel those documents and blacklist their biometrics,” the official said.
The meetings are held twice a year, alternately in India and Bangladesh, to facilitate the two border guards to establish robust systems through which cooperation in border surveillance and management is ensured. India and Bangladesh share a border of 4,096 km.
As reported by The Hindu on April 14, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) formulated a new deportation policy in March, under which all states were asked to set up a special task force in each district to “detect, identify and deport/repatriate illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar” and provide monthly reports on the status of foreigners who lack or overstay their visas.
On 3 March 2020, Home Minister Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply that “some infiltrators are able to enter in a clandestine and covert manner, particularly due to the difficult riverine terrain in parts of the international border with Bangladesh that are not amenable to physical fencing”.
Published – 1 Jun 2026 22:14 IST