<br/>At least three battalions of Assam Rifles will be deployed towards the along the Indo-Myanmar border to check movement of extremists and smuggling.<br/><br/>According to the Director-general of Assam Rifles, Lt. Gen. K.S. Yadava the Centre had approved deployment of 26 additional Assam Rifles battalions along the Indo-Myanmar border at least three of these battalions would be used on the border towards the end of this year. The para-military force hopes that with more deployment of forces, it would be able to check the activities of the Northeast extremists including United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) cadres who had fled from Bangladesh after a series of raids against them.<br/><br/>There are only 15 battalions of the Assam Rifles manning the Indo-Myanmar border from Arunachal Pradesh to Mizoram. The shortage of Assam Rifles personnel to man the Indo-Myanmar border had hampered effective vigil on the border.