Work for erection of barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla International Border (IB) would be completed by 2017, a top official said on Saturday.

“India has set a target of finishing the barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla international border by 2017,” Susheel Kuman, Secretary Border Management under the Union Home Ministry said.

Kumar, who arrived here on a three-day tour yesterday, is now visiting the barbed wire construction works in different parts of Tripura border with Bangladesh. IANS