Amit Shah addresses Land Border Districts’ SP Conference-2026; outlines Smart Border and coastal security approach
The Home Minister said the government is shifting border management from isolated outposts to an integrated security grid, with focus on the India-Myanmar border, coastal security, and demographic monitoring.
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At the Land Border Districts’ Superintendents of Police Conference–2026 in New Delhi on 9 July 2026, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said India’s border security system is moving towards a Smart Border model. He said the conference has given an institutional shape to a comprehensive approach to border security and that the government will also move holistically towards coastal border security.
The conference was attended by Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the Union Home Secretary, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Directors General of Police of border states, and senior officials.
UPSC may link this development to India’s border management architecture, the role of state and district police, fencing, surveillance, infiltration, narcotics trafficking, and the development-security nexus in border villages. It can also be used to discuss how demographic change is monitored as part of internal security policy.
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