BSF ORGANISES ANNUAL GOVERNING BODY MEETING OF TEAR SMOKE UNIT

Akash Dwivedi,The 37th Annual Governing Body Meeting of the Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) of Border Security Force was held at BSF HQrs, New Delhi today under the chairmanship of Sh K K Sharma, IPS, Director General, Border Security Force. The meeting was attended by senior officers from BPR&D, CRPF, MHA, Delhi Police, State Police, Ordnance Factories Board, Ministry of Finance. Sh. Anil Kumar, IPS, IG (Provisioning) welcomed the delegates and Shri Edwin John Bennet, DIG/General Manager, Tear Smoke Unit presented the report on TSU highlighting the achievements. In his inaugural address, Sh. K K Sharma, DG BSF informed that, the Tear Smoke Unit established in Tekanpur, Gwalior has completed more than 39 years of momentous service to the Nation and has come a long way since its humble beginning in May 1976. DG BSF congratulated the management of TSU for continuing with the past tradition of ensuring highest standards of quality, timely production, introducing innovations and improvement in the field of non-lethal munitions. Indigenous production of non-lethal munitions by TSU has nullified countries dependence on foreign munition. Shri K K Sharma, DG BSF further informed that, TSU has lived up to its expectation and achieved the record production of 5.1 lakh nos. of Tear Smoke Munitions in 2015-16, which shows the efficiency of the motivated unit to achieve higher goals. TSU is a ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 14001 : 2004 Certified unit producing 20 types of non-lethal munitions matching global standards and cater for the 100% requirement of all State Police and Armed Forces of the country. In 2015-16 Police Forces have lifted more than 5.03 lakh non-lethal munitions and the major chunk by Police from Gujarat and J&K. TSU provides wide range of products which enable law enforcing agencies to handle various challenging law & order situations. Products broadly include lachrymatory munitions, Stun munitions, impact munitions and customized munitions for special operations. As the products are Bio-safe, non-lethal and complying to international standards, timely and proper utilization of these munitions have saved valuable human lives and crores worth public assets. TSU is having a dynamic and dedicated R&D division which has successfully designed and developed, flash-bang with irritant, high volume chilli spray, Single shell triple effect grenade and customized colour Smoke grenades of yellow, Green and Red for multifarious use. Tear Smoke Unit, Tekanpur also has displayed their products in the last exhibition “India International Security Expo-2015” at PragatiMaidan New Delhi in Oct 2015 and also in BSF Golden Jubilee Exhibition at JawaharLal Nehru Stadium, Lodhi Road New Delhi in Nov 2015.