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The Union home ministry approved the erection of barbed wire fencing covering nearly 863 km in Tripura along the Bangladesh border. "Our focus is to make Tripura a model state in the next three years. In 2016, the Centre had promised to seal the entire stretch of shared border with Bangladesh in Tripura and Assam by 2018. Later this month, Union home minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit the state to assess the progress of work along the India-Bangladesh border. "We want optimum output from the employees and have zero tolerance for corruption and dereliction of duty," Deb said..