Amit Shah reviews Siliguri Corridor security, pushes for ‘triangular grid’

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (August 22, 2026) held a meeting with senior officials of West Bengal and central forces to review security along the nation’s eastern borders, focusing primarily on strengthening arrangements at the Siliguri Corridor, also called the ‘Chicken’s Neck’, officials said.

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The key focus of the meeting was to enhance border surveillance, improve coordination between the central security forces, intelligence agencies and the state police and administration, and draw up a framework for establishing a ‘Triangular Security Grid’, they said.

Senior officials of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) deployed along the borders also participated in the crucial discussion, which took place in Sukna, on the outskirts of Siliguri, on the third and final day of the Home Minister’s visit to the State.

The meeting’s significance lay in Siliguri’s proximity to the international borders with Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and the importance of the narrow corridor that serves as the principal land link between the Northeast and the rest of the country.

“The Siliguri Corridor is one of the most sensitive areas that connects eight States and is crucial to national security. We have prepared a triangular grid comprising three new military garrisons at Dhubri in Assam, Kishanganj in Bihar and Chopra in West Bengal,” Mr. Shah had said at an event of the SSB in Siliguri on Friday (August 21), elucidating the Centre’s plans to set up the grid around the Chicken’s Neck land patch.