Express News Service
NEW DELHI: With China displaying no intent in the direction of de-escalation alongside the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh and as a substitute ramping up its border infrastructure, India has additionally been pushed to strengthen connectivity to the places the place the troops from the 2 sides are nonetheless in a standoff place.
A day after the sixteenth spherical of Corps Commanders talks between India and China on Sunday, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) inaugurated a bridge to Hot Spring (PP15), one of many key standoff factors together with Depsang and Demchok.
The BRO formally knowledgeable on July 18 that Project Himank has efficiently constructed a bailey bridge on the Road Phobrang-Marsimik La-Hot Spring. The BRO personnel (Karmyogis) “have bridged another important gap to facilitate logistics support of our forces”, the BRO stated in a twitter publish.
This is along with the development of a 120-metre everlasting bridge over the mighty Shyok River, additionally in jap Ladakh. The Chinese have been objecting to the strategically essential 255-km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO) Road that ends at an altitude of 16,614 ft at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), about 20 km wanting the 18,700-ft excessive Karakoram Pass.
Col Chewang Rinchen Setu at 15,000 ft is one other strategically essential bridge over the Shyok, connecting Durbuk and DBO in jap Ladakh. The areas of jap Ladakh are being related with roads and bridges, huge and small, conserving the need of mobility in thoughts because the extended standoff between the Indian troops and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army prevails alongside the Line of Actual Control. In excessive altitude mountain terrain, these gaps, if not crammed, compel the troopers to journey longer routes taking extra time and in addition making logistics provide cumbersome.
NEW DELHI: With China displaying no intent in the direction of de-escalation alongside the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh and as a substitute ramping up its border infrastructure, India has additionally been pushed to strengthen connectivity to the places the place the troops from the 2 sides are nonetheless in a standoff place.
A day after the sixteenth spherical of Corps Commanders talks between India and China on Sunday, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) inaugurated a bridge to Hot Spring (PP15), one of many key standoff factors together with Depsang and Demchok.
The BRO formally knowledgeable on July 18 that Project Himank has efficiently constructed a bailey bridge on the Road Phobrang-Marsimik La-Hot Spring. The BRO personnel (Karmyogis) “have bridged another important gap to facilitate logistics support of our forces”, the BRO stated in a twitter publish.
This is along with the development of a 120-metre everlasting bridge over the mighty Shyok River, additionally in jap Ladakh. The Chinese have been objecting to the strategically essential 255-km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO) Road that ends at an altitude of 16,614 ft at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), about 20 km wanting the 18,700-ft excessive Karakoram Pass.
Col Chewang Rinchen Setu at 15,000 ft is one other strategically essential bridge over the Shyok, connecting Durbuk and DBO in jap Ladakh. The areas of jap Ladakh are being related with roads and bridges, huge and small, conserving the need of mobility in thoughts because the extended standoff between the Indian troops and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army prevails alongside the Line of Actual Control. In excessive altitude mountain terrain, these gaps, if not crammed, compel the troopers to journey longer routes taking extra time and in addition making logistics provide cumbersome.
