<p>India is now capable of even peeping into Pakistani homes through its Integrated Comprehensive Border Managment System (CIBMS), currently on a pilot in Jammu and Punjab.</p>.<p>This declaration of India’s tech-driven prowess came from Union Minister of State for Space Department, Jitendra Singh.</p>.<p>At the launch of Isro’s Unnati project here on Thursday, Singh said the system allows India to look into the verandahs and rooms of people’s houses across the border in Pakistan.</p>.<p>In the wake of the Pathankot attack, the Centre had green-signalled CIBMS to stop infiltration along the 2,900-km Indo-Pak border.</p>.<p>The plan was this: Anyone attempting to enter India from Gujarat to Jammu & Kashmir could be tracked through multiple technologies.</p>.<p>The system incorporates round-the-clock surveillance, thermal imaging, night-<br />vision devices, battlefield<br />surveillance radars and underground monitoring sensors.</p>.<p>Isro has announced that a satellite will be launched exclusively for the Home Ministry to help it further strengthen frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</p>.<p>A task force had recommended the use of space technology to boost border management. </p>.<p>Jitendra Singh made a link with space technology and the grounded need for toilets, by recalling a question actor Amitabh Bachchan posed to him years ago: Can space tech be used to map toilets? The matinee idol would often get stuck in traffic, and was forced to go to strangers’ houses in search of a toilet.</p>.<p>The minister said, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Space department had received more attention than ever before.</p>.<p>Isro was out of sight, and Sriharikota was a ‘godforsaken’ place. “But now, we are using space tech in infrastructure, construction of roads, manning of railway crossings and MGNREGS,” the miniswter noted.</p>.<p>Neil Armstrong, Singh reminded, had landed on Moon in 1969 with that famous statement about a small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind. Yet, he could not see water.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">On Chandrayaan</p>.<p>“But Chandrayaan, our unmanned mission from India, found what the man could not,” the minister pointed out.</p>.<p>Dubbing India as a frontline nation in the field of space technology, he said the country had surpassed many others with its Gaganyaan project.</p>
<p>India is now capable of even peeping into Pakistani homes through its Integrated Comprehensive Border Managment System (CIBMS), currently on a pilot in Jammu and Punjab.</p>.<p>This declaration of India’s tech-driven prowess came from Union Minister of State for Space Department, Jitendra Singh.</p>.<p>At the launch of Isro’s Unnati project here on Thursday, Singh said the system allows India to look into the verandahs and rooms of people’s houses across the border in Pakistan.</p>.<p>In the wake of the Pathankot attack, the Centre had green-signalled CIBMS to stop infiltration along the 2,900-km Indo-Pak border.</p>.<p>The plan was this: Anyone attempting to enter India from Gujarat to Jammu & Kashmir could be tracked through multiple technologies.</p>.<p>The system incorporates round-the-clock surveillance, thermal imaging, night-<br />vision devices, battlefield<br />surveillance radars and underground monitoring sensors.</p>.<p>Isro has announced that a satellite will be launched exclusively for the Home Ministry to help it further strengthen frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.</p>.<p>A task force had recommended the use of space technology to boost border management. </p>.<p>Jitendra Singh made a link with space technology and the grounded need for toilets, by recalling a question actor Amitabh Bachchan posed to him years ago: Can space tech be used to map toilets? The matinee idol would often get stuck in traffic, and was forced to go to strangers’ houses in search of a toilet.</p>.<p>The minister said, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Space department had received more attention than ever before.</p>.<p>Isro was out of sight, and Sriharikota was a ‘godforsaken’ place. “But now, we are using space tech in infrastructure, construction of roads, manning of railway crossings and MGNREGS,” the miniswter noted.</p>.<p>Neil Armstrong, Singh reminded, had landed on Moon in 1969 with that famous statement about a small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind. Yet, he could not see water.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">On Chandrayaan</p>.<p>“But Chandrayaan, our unmanned mission from India, found what the man could not,” the minister pointed out.</p>.<p>Dubbing India as a frontline nation in the field of space technology, he said the country had surpassed many others with its Gaganyaan project.</p>