Because they are the only ones in the Vale, and are strictly on the border.
Because there are another 30,000 in Ladakh.
Because there are another 45,000 in Jammu.
Because there are 50,000 in the RR, specifically doing counter-insurgency duty, in four command headquarters throughout J&K.
There are 105,000 soldiers doing military work, of whom 15,000 are not even within the borders of Kashmir, and there are another 50,000 soldiers doing counter-insurgency work specifically.
We have to put additional troops in Punjab, and in Rajasthan; and we have our mountain divisions, apart from the ones in Ladakh, dedicated to the China frontier, and from the 'central' section, which on our side is Himachal and Uttarakhand, from the 'eastern' section, from Sikkim to Arunachal. There are additional troops on training and in their cantonments throughout India. There is a very large cantonment walking distance from where I am keying this in, in Secunderabad; by very large, I mean several hundred square kilometres.