'Rampur, Mudhol': BSF turns to Indian dog breeds - what inspired shift?

NEW DELHI: The Border Security Force (BSF) has focused connected grooming and deploying Indian breed dogs on India’s borders, taking a cue from an occurrence of PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’. ADG and manager of the BSF Academy, Tekanpur, Shamsher Singh, told ANI, “In Mann Ki Baat, the Prime Minister urged radical to see Indian breeds erstwhile adopting dogs.

After that, BSF started this programme to bid and breed Indian dogs.

""So far, we person trained 150 Indian breed dogs and deployed them astatine the border. In total, astir 700 dogs are deployed astatine the border. Twenty much are astatine the breeding centre," helium added.Singh informed that the breeds being deployed were Rampur Hound and Mudhol Hound. "They are slim, quick, and grip tasks similar jumping from heights amended than different breeds," helium said.Riya, a canine bred and trained by BSF, won the Best Tracker Dog grant successful 2024, defeating foreign-bred dogs successful a title to triumph the Best Dog title, the ADG informed.

In a 2020 occurrence of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM Modi highlighted the relation of dogs successful catastrophe absorption and rescue missions. He said Indian breed dogs are competent, low-cost to maintain, and suited to Indian conditions. He urged, “Next clip you deliberation of keeping a dog, bring location an Indian breed. In a self-reliant India, nary country should beryllium near behind.”