Official sources here today said Chief Minister Manik Sarkar reviewed the border security and ongoing fencing work last week with the BSF, state police and other Central paramilitary forces and assured that the state would provide security to the fencing workers.
''Only 115 km of the 856 km Indo-Bangladesh border has not been fenced yet due to difficult terrain and security has become a serious issue,'' the officials said, adding that security had been enhanced following attack on BSF at the border in the eastern part of the state.
Militants had attacked BSF personnel from nearby hillocks with automatic weapons when they had gone for patrolling in Ratiacherra area in remote Chamanu when and simultaneously Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were also exploded, in which two jawans were injured.
The BSF had gone for providing security to the fencing workers.