"We are re-arranging border management strategy and thinking in terms of realignment and better strategy," Special BSF DG (East) R K Medhekar, who was accompanied by IG (Assam and Meghalaya Frontier) Prithvi Raj and senior officials, said.
"There is no problem in Muktapur at the moment and basically it’s a people’s issue," he said, adding people from this side of the border sometimes went fishing on areas adversely held by India.
Medhekar said it was a socio-economic problem concerning livelihood, while downplaying the four incidents of firing between BSF and BDR over the last six weeks.
Seeking to reassure Muktapur villagers, a sizeable number of whom had shifted in the wake of firing, Medhekar said, "I want to reassure that the BSF will remain there and not move. We are here to protect the border and make the people feel secure."
Maintaining that the BSF was not at "any disadvantage", Medhekar said more border outposts would be set up along the Indo-Bangla border.
"This is as per the government’s general policy to reduce the distance between the BOPs and bring them within marching distance."