PCR – Parliamentary Q and A

Entry points under e Visa Scheme 12 April 2017

E-Visa is presently available for entry through 3 seaports, viz. Cochin, New Mangalore and Marmagao seaport and 24 airports, viz. Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Kolkata, Cochin, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Trivandrum, Calicut, Lucknow, Amritsar, Trichy, Jaipur, Mangalore, Pune, Nagpur, Coimbatore, Gaya, Bagdogra, Guwahati, Varanasi and Chandigarh.

Equal treatment to paramilitary personnel died in action at par with Army martyrs 19 July 2017

Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Army are not comparable on a one to one
basis as there are differences in their retirement age, service rules etc.

Espionage rackets of ISI 29 March 2017

As per the available information during the course of neutralization of Pak espionage
modules for the year 2016 & 2017 (till 22.03.2017), 33 agents were arrested/detected in spying activities for Pak backed intelligence agency, ISI.

Extremist organisations in Kerala 26 July 2017

Details of Left Wing Extremists (LWE) apprehended, number of violent incidents
perpetrated by them and number of Left Wing Extremists killed is as under

Facilities to Jawans 19 July 2017

The barrack accommodation is part of authorized infrastructure for jawans of CAPFs.
Continuous endeavors are made to improve the level of housing satisfaction for officers and men of CAPFs and for this appropriate budgetary allocations are also made.

Failure of authorities in tackling insurgency 26 July 2017

The details of terrorist attacks on Army in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and
casualties therein during the current year are as under:-
Year Number of Incidents Fatal casualties 2017(till 17 July) 149

Fake currency notes smuggled from Bangladesh 20 December 2017

As per the data available with National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) of face value of Rs.18.80 crores has been seized by the States/UTs Police during the current year (2017).

False confirmation about vaccination of paramilitary troops 22 March 2017

An Indian Formed Police Unit (Assam Rifles 7th Contingent) was inducted for deployment at Haiti in last week of July 2016.

Fencing of border area passing through Malda district 22 March 2017

The details of fake currency seized along International Borders (IB), post demonetization,
district-wise is as follows

Fencing of Indo Bangladesh borders 12 April 2017

A total of about 249.61 km of Indo-Pakistan Border (IPB) and 1090.2 km of Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB) have not been covered by fencing, primarily due to riverine/nala/marshy terrain and in some cases due to pending land acquisition etc.