The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has taken a first-time decision to deploy its specialised engineering wing for constructing certain roads and foot tracks along the Line of Actual Control to speed up connectivity projects with its posts in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.
The move, which was approved by the Union home ministry, comes amid a military standoff with China in the eastern Ladakh area.
Official sources told PTI that the border force, ITBP, has taken up the “challenge” to construct four out of the 32 roads under phase-II of the Indo-China Border Roads project and two out of the total 18 foot tracks sanctioned to it by the government.
