AFTER TAKING over because the Army Chief earlier this month, General Manoj Pandey went on his first go to to Ladakh on Thursday. The go to comes even because the greater than two-year lengthy standoff between India and China in japanese Ladakh stays unresolved. Pandey will go to the ahead areas in japanese Ladakh too.
The Army mentioned in an announcement that Pande reached Leh on Thursday and “was briefed on the security situation along the borders with special focus on Eastern Ladakh.” It mentioned that the “high level of operational readiness being maintained by the forces while maintaining a high tempo of capability development was highlighted.”
Along with Pande, Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, who took over because the Northern Army Commander in February, and Lt Gen A Sengupta, who took cost of the XIV Corps dealing with China, in January had been additionally current.
The assertion talked about that the three navy leaders met Lt Governor of Ladakh RK Mathur “followed by a detailed discussion on issues related to Civil-Military cooperation and the role of Indian Army in developmental activities” within the Union Territory.
The Army mentioned throughout his three-day go to Pande “will visit forward areas in Eastern Ladakh and interact with troops deployed along the Line of Actual Control in the most difficult and inhospitable terrain in the world.”
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India and China have held 15 rounds of Corps Commander-level talks however the standoff is but to be resolved. There are three excellent friction factors—Patrolling Point 15 in Hot Springs, the place a platoon-sized unit of Chinese troops is stationed on the Indian facet of the LAC; the Chinese troops are blocking Indian troopers from accessing their conventional patrolling limits at PP10, PP11, PP11A, PP12 and PP13 in Depsang plains; and in Demchok the place some Chinese have pitched tents on the Indian facet of the LAC.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
