Reality check on Indo-Myanmar border fencing
The 1,643 km porous India-Myanmar border will be fenced at a cost of Rs 31,000 crore, and passes through Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. The free movement regime with Myanmar was scrapped in 2024. FMR allowed people residing close to the border to venture 16 km into each other's territory without a visa.
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- Section
- World
- Topics
- Defence & security
- Places
- Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland
- First reported by
- The Economic Times
- Reporter
- bikash singh
- Published
- Friday, 23 October 2026, 12:23 am IST
- Coverage
- One outlet so far
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