Featured Image: Indian and Chinese soldiers at Bumla along the Indo-China border, Arunachal Pradesh.
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As China is disengaging from the Pangong Tso area in Ladakh, India is going ahead to improve patrolling along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh.
The government has approved the building of 18 border patrol foot tracks in accordance with the proposal from a committee of Union Ministry of Home Affairs, reports Economic Times.
The 18 border foot tracks will cover an area of 600 km and the cost for this project will be ₹1,162 crore. These foot tracks would enhance the patrolling capabilities of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
It will also help in infrastructure development in the inaccessible areas near the Chinese occupied territory.
There is a growing necessity to develop such infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh as the state has the longest border with China, at 1,126 km. The rest of the 3,488 km long border between India and China are shared by the states of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the union territory of Ladakh.
The government has also made it very clear that this project is not connected to the ongoing India-China border tensions in the territory of Eastern Ladakh but is part of a policy to develop infrastructure in this region, which is the sovereign right of India.
It must be noted that China is already building several roads and railway tracks in this region to improve its logistics, which is believed to be a factor for them to have agreed to the ongoing disengagement.
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