List of Integrated Check Posts (ICPs)- Relevance for UPSC Exam
- GS Paper 2: International Relations: India and its neighbourhood- relations.
List of Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) in News
- Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nisith Pramanik in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha informed about various Integrated Check Posts (ICPs), bordering countries and their Date of Operationalization.
Integrated Check Posts (ICPs)
- About: ICPs are modern border infrastructure that are central to India’s connectivity plans in the region.
- Nodal Agency: The Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) is the nodal agency for construction, operation, and management of the ICPs.
- Key Role: ICPs consist of border infrastructure for facilitation of trade and people. They also act as important centres to advance other multi-modal intra- and inter-regional connectivity initiatives, such as-
- Improving rail connectivity;
- Implementing the Bangladesh–Bhutan–India–Nepal Motor Vehicles Agreement (BBIN-MVA);
- The use of Chattogram and Mongla ports in Bangladesh to transport cargo to India’s Northeast region; and
- The Kaladan Multi-modal Transit Transport Project to connect Southeast Asia to South Asia.
- ICP at Dera Baba Nanak: Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) at Dera Baba Nanak is used only to facilitate pilgrims to visit the Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib ji in Pakistan.
List of Integrated Check Posts (ICPs)- Location, Concerned State, and Bordering Country
| S. No. | Location | State | Bordering Country | Year of Operationalization |
| 1. | Attari | Punjab | Pakistan | 2012 |
| 2. | Agartala | Tripura | Bangladesh | 2013 |
| 3. | Petrapole | West Bengal | Bangladesh | 2016 |
| 4. | Raxaul | Bihar | Nepal | 2016 |
| 5. | Jogbani | Bihar | Nepal | 2016 |
| 6. | Moreh | Manipur | Myanmar | 2018 |
| 7. | Sutarkandi | Assam | Bangladesh | 2019 |
| 8. | PTB Dera Baba Nanak | Punjab | Pakistan | 2019 |
| 9. | Srimantapur | Tripura | Bangladesh | 2020 |
Proposed Integrated Check Posts (ICPs)
- Last year (2021), Indian government also decided to set up seven new ICPs- Five on the Indo-Bangladesh border and one ICP each on borders with Nepal and Bhutan.
- The five ICPs on the Indo-Bangladesh borders will be set up at-
- Changrabandha in Cooch Behar,
- Phulbari in Jalpaiguri,
- Hilli in South Dinajpur,
- Mahadipur in Malda and
- Gojadanga in North 24-Parganas.
- One ICP will be set up at Panitanki in Darjeeling district bordering Nepal and another at Jaigaon in Alipurduar bordering Bhutan.
Border Infrastructure and Management Scheme