Dharamshala, 29th October: Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, and other top state officials paid a visit to troops stationed along India’s border with Tibet, particularly Yangtse, where Chinese troops were said to have invaded just a few days earlier. He also paid a visit to the Yangkee-1 border station, which is home to the Buddhist shrine of 108 waterfalls and the Tullung La battle memorial.
According to a government spokeswoman, the Chief Minister traveled to isolated outposts in Tawang district to bolster army morale and praise them for pushing the People’s Liberation Army out of Indian land. At the Yangtse border post, an altercation between Indian and Chinese soldiers was recently reported.
Development of border areas:
According to him, the Centre and the State have made border development a priority, and the pace of infrastructure construction has quickened in recent years.
Mr. Khandu credited the border infrastructure drive to a coordinated effort rather than individual projects pursued by agencies like the Border Roads Organisation, Army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and State Government ministries, as was previously the case.
He said that four more companies of the Arunachal Scouts, an Army infantry regiment headquartered in the state, will be established to guard the border. There are now two battalions in the Arunachal Scouts.
Yangtse was the first stop of the Chief Minister’s three-day journey, which he embarked on with Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar and Planning Commissioner Prashant Lokhande on October 24. Along the border, he passed via the villages of Tse Chu, Mago, and Thingbu.