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India plans to spend nearly $3.7 billion to fence its 1,610-km porous border with Myanmar within about a decade to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities.
For reasons of national security and to preserve the demographic makeup of its northeastern area, New Delhi said earlier this year that it will fence the border and revoke the decades-old visa-free movement policy with coup-hit Myanmar for border citizens.
A government committee approved the cost of the fencing earlier this month, which must be approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, according to the source, who did not want to be identified because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
The committee of senior Indian officials also agreed to build parallel roads along the fence and 1,700 km of feeder roads connecting military bases to the border, the source said.
The fence and the adjoining road will cost nearly ₹125 million per km, more than double that of the 55 million per km cost for the border fence with Bangladesh built in 2020, the source said, because of the difficult hilly terrain and the use of technology to prevent intrusion and corrosion.
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