An overhaul of road construction on the Indo-China border has been planned to give a push to the efforts of security forces and provide connectivity to strategic locations like Siachen.
Despite China’s opposition in the past to constructions being planned by India along border areas, the government is expected to hasten the road construction projects on the frontier.
An official privy to the details said that the idea was to have motorable roads right up to the border, just like the Chinese have.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked for road construction to be expedited after a two-day visit to the Ladakh region that also included spending a night at a border outpost close to the Indo-China border.
The strategic road connectivity includes Leh-Demchok, Chuchul-Luma and Durbuk-Trijunction, which leads to the Siachen base camp, will be constructed at the earliest.
All other roads having strategic importance will also be expeditiously constructed as the home minister has given necessary directions to concerned agencies.
Singh spent two nights, including one at ITBP border post Dungti, located at an altitude of 13,648 feet above sea level.
The home minister and Director General of ITBP Krishna Chaudhary slept in two available beds while the rest of the entourage had to sleep in sleeping bags in the biting cold.
Singh has also ordered construction of infrastructure for improving mobile telephone network in the region.
The home ministry’s project for construction of 27 roads for the movement of troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has been very slow as only three roads have been built till last year end.
Source from India Defence News.
