agartala: Shortage of manpower and lack of proper training or motivation are some pressing problems besieging the BSF, India's border guarding organisation on its frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to an internal report by paramilitary force.
The report said that frequent withdrawal of BSF personnel to deal with internal disturbance, law and order duties, and counter insurgency operations "limits their capabilities to guard the border effectively."
"We have diluted standards of our training over the years and the first casualty was collective training where the duration was reduced now there is virtually no collective training at all," it observed.