Guwahati, July 4 : Assam governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi has directed Assam police to take adequate measures to function of all non functional border watch posts.
According to the reports, about 39 out of 159 border watch posts of the Assam Police Border Organisation (APBO) in the state are non functional.
On Wednesday, the Assam governor has asked Additional Director General of Police (Border) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta to look into the matter on an urgent basis and take remedial steps.
Assam governor Prof. Mukhi called ADGP (Border) Mahanta to his office at Raj Bhavan to discuss the status of the border outposts.
He asked ADGP (Border) to look into the issue and lend his intervention for capacity building of the watch posts immediately.
He also asked him to engage his men and machinery to make all the watch posts functional by July 31, 2018 and give him an action taken report.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
