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Border infrastructure along the Sino-Indian border, which has several border areas disputed by both India and China, encompasses irrigation, roads, railways, airports, natural gas and oil pipelines, electricity grids, telecommunications, and broadcasting. In the context of the border tensions between India and China, many of these ...
India / China Served by Fukche AGL. [118] Padum AGL [118] and Leh Airport are 2nd line of defence. 4 Chumar North Tibet Ladakh India Served by Nyoma AGL. [118] Chumar sector has 2 noncontiguous areas, north and south. India has road up to the claimed border. China does not have a road up to border. Both India and China are also served by ...
India's foreign ministry said in a statement that both ministers agreed on the need to work with "purpose and urgency to achieve complete disengagement at the earliest".
To strengthen the defence infrastructure India acquired the land near Lungroo La mountain pass in Lungroo Grazing Ground (LGG) 17 km away from Tawang town, [13] and under the India–China Border Roads (ICBRs) project started to build the strategic LGG-Damteng-Yangtse Road (LDY) to the Indian post near Chumi Gyatse Falls.
ICBR infrastructure is funded by the "Border Infrastructure and Management Fund" (BIMF) which provides funding for India's border infrastructures along Bangladesh, Pakistan and China borders. [ 10 ] Spending on ICBR tripled between 2016 and 2020, from ₹ 4,600 crore (equivalent to ₹ 54 billion or US$630 million in 2023) to ₹ 11,800 crore ...
India dismisses China's claim over Arunachal Pradesh as "non-substantial", and over Tawang as "only ecclesial". [ 16 ] In mid-2020, India accused China of precipitating the 2020–2021 military standoff at several locations along the LAC in Ladakh, giving rise to a series of clashes between the two belligerents.
Some analysts pointed that India's growing trade with other Asian countries, especially China, will help reduce the negative impact of the crisis. [39] Analysts also said that India's high domestic demand and large infrastructure projects will act as a buffer reducing the impact of the global downturn on its economy. [40] Economists argued that ...
India's Global Hunger Index India ranking of 67, the 80 nations with the worst hunger situation places it even below North Korea or Sudan. 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight, while 72% of infants have anemia. [15] It is considered that one in three malnourished children live in India. States where malnutrition is prominent: [15]