Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said India’s two major borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh will be completely secured in the next two years, with work underway to plug gaps in about 60 km stretch along these two fronts.

Shah said the Modi government has fenced and plugged gaps in about 560 km of the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders in the last nine years since it came to power at the Centre. All the gaps in these two borders on India’s western and eastern flank respectively are being plugged and work in only about 60 km is continuing, he added.

In the next two years we will entirely secure these two borders, he further said.

The Union Minister was speaking at a ceremonial parade of the Border Security Force (BSF) on the occasion of its 59th Raising Day celebrations in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh.

“I firmly believe that a country cannot develop and prosper if its borders are not secure…the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led the country to the moon with the Chandrayaan mission, G20 Summit and brought the economy from the 11th to the fifth spot, and this was all possible due to our forces deployed for securing the borders like the BSF,” Shah said.

“You, the BSF, are the essential pillar of this journey,” he continued.

“I believe that the border fence does not alone protect the country, it only helps in rendering this task. It is the brave BSF jawan who does this task,” Shah added.