India, June 7 -- Union home minister Amit Shah has directed that Border Security Force (BSF) cameras along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura be upgraded and linked to the district administration, making the state the first to implement the Centre's new CCTV-based border security model, according to a government statement issued on Saturday.

The directions were issued during a border security review meeting chaired by Shah at the BSF's Tripura Frontier headquarters on Friday and attended by chief minister Manik Saha, chief secretary J K Sinha, DGP Anurag Dhankar and other senior officers along with the district magistrates and superintendents of police of all eight border districts.

Under the model, the civil administration will wor...