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Integrated Check-Post (ICP)

2020 JAN 21

Preliminary   > Security   >   Border area management   >   India- Nepal

WHY IN NEWS?

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, along with Prime Minister of Nepal, K.P. Sharma Oli, jointly inaugurated the second Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Jogbani – Biratnagar.

ABOUT ICP

  • The ICPs are sanitised zones at border crossings, with adequate passenger and freight-processing facilities.
  • They integrate three main border-related functions:
    • Customs: For the clearance of cargo/goods carried by vehicles, valuable personal items of passengers, and currency by monitoring mechanism and installed equipment.
    • Immigration: For the checking of passports, visas and passenger identification.
    • Border Security: For maintaining security, preventing the flow of illegal arms and other lethal weapons, and providing backup support to customs and immigration.
  • The ICPs are aimed at facilitating the systematic, seamless and secure cross-border movement of goods and people by ensuring efficient passenger flow, providing adequate passenger facilities, smoothening processes, optimising the use of facilities, systemising support facilities, and improving traffic flow.
  • As of 2019, 20 checkpoints have been identified for development as ICPs, of which half are on the India–Bangladesh border.
  • The status (as of March 2019) and details of the Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) along the border areas, State / UT wise are given below:

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Prelims Question

Q. Jogbani, which has an integrated check-post (ICP) with a neighboring country, is located in:
a. Assam
b. West Bengal
c. Tripura
d. Bihar

Answer to the Prelims Question


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