Article Posted on : - Jun 09, 2009

Map indicating India-China borders.

ITANAGAR (BNS): India is strengthening its security along the Indo-China border by deploying additional troops, helicopters, building airstrips and unmanned aerial vehicles.

“To develop India’s capability to effectively meet the future security challenges, deployment of more troops along the India-China border is necessary,” Arunachal Pradesh Governor, General (retd) J.J. Singh, told reporters here Monday.

"Two army divisions comprising 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers each will be deployed along the border in Arunachal," he said. A report by The Times Of India had earlier said that  the nation is agonized over the Chinese incursions into Indian territory.

India and China had signed a treaty to maintain “peace and tranquility” despite the border dispute and agreed to find a political solution for it. According to the army, last year Chinese troops has crossed the Arunachal border illegally and entered the territory.

Meanwhile, Indian Air Force (IAF) Tezpur base will soon induct Sukhoi fighter planes as part of its upgradation plans to meet challenges from China. IAF will also post another squadron of its frontline jets at the Chabua air base in the northeast (Assam) under its military policy to boost security along the border with China.

In 1962 India and China had fought in the Himalayan border claimming for the territory.