Army acquires 14 acres of land in Arunachal Pradesh ITBP gets new head in Ladakh
As part of its continuing efforts to further strengthen its presence along the borders, the Indian Army has acquired around 14 acres of land in the West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, sources said.
The Army would be using the land to construct buildings for its units deployed there near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
"Such land acquisitions are routine in nature and are done as and when required by the units on the ground," the sources said.
The Army has two of its corps looking after Arunachal Pradesh including the Dimapur-based 3 Corps and Tezpur-based 4 Corps.
Both the donations have deployed themselves in the forward locations at the moment in view of the ongoing boundary dispute between them in Eastern Ladakh and other areas.
In the conflict, the Indian armed forces have deployed
their forward formations in a high meet mode even during the harshest winters.
The two sides are in a conflict situation since AprilMay last year. India has reacted strongly to Chinese attempts to unilaterally change the status quo unilaterally.
NEW DELHI: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which guards the Line of Actual Control with China, has posted a new officer to head its frontier in Ladakh, official sources said on Saturday. Lhari Dorjee Lhatoo, a 1999batch officer of the Manipur cadre, will be replacing ITBP Inspector General (IG) Deepam Seth, who was commanding the force troops deployed along the L AC with China in Ladakh. Seth, a 1995-batch Indian Police Ser vice (IPS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, has been transferred to the ITBP Headquarters in Delhi, as per an order issued by the IndoTibetan Border Police Headquarters here.