Attari Border Quarantine, Amritsar is a subordinate office of Director General of Health Services under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare incepted/opened in the year 1979.

Objects and goals of the Office

The prime aim of Airport and Border Quarantine, Amritsar is to prevent any infectious disease entering into our country which is not prevalent in India e.g. Yellow Fever, SARS. Swine Flu. This list is going to be lengthened in future with incidence of new diseases. Meaningful interaction with other agencies will be a key factor strategy implementation of International Health Regulations, 2005. As per directions of Govt. of India.

Location

ABQ, Amritsar has its main office at Amritsar. It looks after the Attari Railway Station. Wagha Road Border which are situated at 30 kms South West of Amritsar. ABQ situated centrally in Amritsar.

• ATTARI is situated about 28 Kms from Amritsar city.
• Wagah Border 2 kms from Attari, where beating retreat takes place Wagah named after village Wagah in pakistan through which the radcliffe line was drawn-today the eastern half of the village remains in the Republic of India while the western half is in Pakistan
• Integrated Check Post became operational on 13 April 2012 about 1.6 Kms from border.
• In ICP all the departments are integrated for passengers and trade separately.

Passengers travel on foot and through buses. Daily passengers movement on average is 200 passengers per day which increases during religious celebrations on both sides.