“…BRCs were initially categorized into types A, B and C according to their length-to-width ratios with type C being the most elongated ones (Sugitani et al, 1991;Sugitani & Ogura, 1994). A large number of these BRCs show signs of ongoing star formation (Sugitani et al, 1989(Sugitani et al, , 1995Ogura et al, 2002;Chauhan et al, 2011;Hayashi et al, 2012;Movsessian et al, 2012) which may have possibly been triggered due to the ionization front formation in these clouds. Thus BRCs are the ideal laboratories to investigate the radiation driven implosion (RDI) process which is suggested as the mechanism responsi-ble for the compression of the cloud and subsequent triggering of star formation (Reipurth, 1983;Bertoldi, 1989;Lefloch & Lazareff, 1994).…”