Border Security Force (Water/Marine Wing) is one of the special units of Border Security Force of India. It is responsible for patrolling riverine borders in North Bengal frontier, South Bengal frontier, Andaman Nicobar frontier, Tripura - Mizoram & Cachar (TMC) Frontier, Jammu frontier, Punjab frontier and Gujarat frontier of the BSF. The Water Wing guards around 1400 km of a riverine boundary of India. its members are filled either by deputation basis or from special batches of BSF personal trained from National Inland Navigating Institute, Patna.
List of watercraft in Border Security Force (Water Wing) Type of crafts Numbers Floating Border Out Posts (FBOPs) 10 Medium Crafts 12 Mechanised Boats 25 Speed Boats 131 Rigid Inflatable Boats 43 Naka Boats 120 Country Boats 92 Fast Patrol Boats 22 Swamp Boats 1 Total 455
See also Indo-Tibetan Border Police (Water Wing)
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