India to strong defence along China border, 54 new Border Police posts being planned in Arunachal

A proposal for creating 54 modern posts for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is under consideration of the Union home ministry after the border guarding force recently submitted a proposal in this regard.

"The home ministry has in principle given its nod for the proposal which is being processed," the sources said.

As part of modernization and better border management planning of India's security mechanism along this border, prone to a spate of incursions, the posts will be, under the proposal, equipped with all the basic gadgets that the troops require to position themselves at these icy heights.

Arunachal Pradesh shares a total of 1,126 km of its international border with China, second in length after Jammu and Kashmir which has a 1,597 km long frontier with India's eastern neighbour.

At present, India has 142 border posts along this 3,488 km long frontier with other border states being Himachal Pradesh (200 km), Uttarakhand (345 km) and Sikkim (220 km).

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