BSF orders 'high alert' along Bangladesh border; DG, senior officers in Kolkata

New Delhi: With Bangladesh on the boil, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday issued a "high alert" along the 4,096-km border and directed all its field commanders to be "on ground" and "deploy all personnel on border duty immediately".

BSF Acting Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary and other senior commanders reached Kolkata to review the security situation. Chawdhury has toured the North 24 Paragans district and Sundarbans area.

"In view of the changed situation in Bangladesh, the BSF has issued alerts all along the Indo-Bangladesh border and the number of troops deployed along the border has been increased. Leave of all the personnel posted along the Bangladesh border were cancelled in the last few weeks after Bangladesh witnessed massive protests and now all units have been asked to acquire an all alert posture," a BSF official said.

The BSF is also in constant touch with Border Guard Bangladesh, the official said adding.

West Bengal shares a total of 2,217 kilometres of its border with Bangladesh, along with Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km) and Mizoram (318 km).