Vijay Mohan

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 13

To showcase its history and role, the Border Security Force (BSF) is setting up a hi-tech interpretation centre at the joint check post at Attari on the border with Pakistan.

The Retreat at Attari attracts about 15,000 visitors from across the country and abroad on weekdays and up to 25,000 on weekends or holidays. This, the BSF believes, is an ideal venue to project its activities.

“The process of setting up an interpretation centre has commenced and the entire work of conceptualisation, designing, construction and installation of display items will be outsourced on a turnkey basis,” a BSF officer said. “The project is expected to complete in about two years,” he said.

The centre will have several galleries with different themes, such as the history of the force, its role and allocated tasks, deployment on the eastern and western theatres, counter-insurgency and internal security duties, international peace-keeping missions, organisation and rank structure, achievers and martyrs. There will be a separate gallery for displaying weapons, surveillance equipment and communication gadgets used by the border guarding force. Another gallery will be dedicated to BSF’s specialised wings, such artillery, air wing, marine wing, commando wing, camel squads and dog squads.

Feats on display

• The centre will have several galleries with different themes, such as the history of the force, allocated tasks and deployment on the eastern and western theatres among others
• There will be a separate gallery for displaying weapons, surveillance equipment and communication gadgets used by the force