Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren Rijiju has informed that Setting up Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) at Sunauli and Rupaidiha in Uttar Pradesh (Nepal Border) and Sutarkandi in Assam (Bangladesh Border) has been approved. Further, “in principle” approval has been granted for the setting up Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) at 10 other location viz; (i) Ghojadanga, West Bengal (Bangladesh border) (ii) Changrabandha, West Bengal (Bangladesh border) (iii) Fulbari, West Bengal (Bangladesh border) (iv) Jaigaon, West Bengal (Bhutan border) (v) Panitanki, West Bengal, (Nepal border) (vi) Mahadipur, West Bengal (Bangladesh border) (vii) Hili, West Bengal (Bangladesh border) (viii) Banbasa, Uttarakhand (Nepal border) (ix) Bhitamore, Bihar (Nepal border) (x) Kawrpuichhuah, Mizoram (Bangladesh border).
The current status and details of the Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) along the border areas, State / UT wise are given below:
| S. No. | ICP Location | State | Borders with | Current Status |
| 1 | Attari (Amritsar) | Punjab | Pakistan |
Operational |
| 2 | Agartala | Tripura | Bangladesh | |
| 3 | Petrapole | West Bengal | Bangladesh | |
| 4 | Raxaul | Bihar | Nepal | |
| 5 | Jogbani | Bihar | Nepal | |
| 6 | Moreh | Manipur | Myanmar | |
| 7 | Dawki | Meghalaya | Bangladesh | under construction |
| 8 | Rupaidiha | Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) | Nepal | Approved in December, 2018. |
| 9 | Sunauli | Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) | Nepal | |
| 10 | Sutarkandi | Assam | Bangladesh |
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