Agencies
New Delhi, June 17: The Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to accelerate the construction of roads along the India-China border, sources have said. The process to ramp up the road construction was discussed during a meeting led by Home Ministry's Additional Secretary for Border Management BR Sharma.
The meeting was attended by officials of Border Road Organisation (BRO), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Indian Army and Central Public Works Department (CP{WD).
Under the phase 2 of the India-China Border Roads (ICBR) project, 32 roads will be built along the India-China border. As per sources, the government on Wednesday asked concerned officials to accelerate the construction of these roads.
At least 1,500 additional labourers are being sent to the construction site, sources in the home ministry said.
A meeting on India-China border security will be held in the Home Ministry on Thursday, they said.
The decision to ramp up road construction comes at a time when Indian troops are locked in a bitter standoff with the Chinese army over the construction of a road on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh. |
