*NEW DELHI – Indian Military two new strategic projects along borders havebeen revealed.*
Two strategic projects to build climate-controlled border outposts andfrontier roads along the LAC with China have been to be expedited, ITBPDirector-General SS Deswal said today.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police chief also said the force is assessing the3,488-km border area, running from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh, to see ifmore outposts can be created.
The construction of the first ITBP composite or climate-controlled outpostat Lukung (near Pangong Tso in Ladakh) was entrusted to NBCC but has beendelayed, Mr Deswal said.
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“We are requesting them to expedite the work. We are making efforts toensure that the work is complete without further delay,” he said on the eveof the 58th Raising Day of the paramilitary force raised in the aftermathof the 1962 Chinese aggression.
The building of composite outposts for ITBP troops is an ambitious projectsanctioned by the Union government a few years ago. These bases will haveclimate-controlled temperatures for soldiers who guard the Line of ActualControl with China and the source of energy at these will be clean fuel orsolar energy, and not diesel or kerosene.
