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The area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China has 'shrunk' over a period of time and India has lost 'substantial' land in the last two decades, according to an official report.
At a recent meeting in Leh, attended by officials from the Jammu and Kashmir government, Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Army, it was agreed that there was difference in the maps of various agencies and that there was lack of proper mapping of the area.
The meeting was chaired by Commissioner (Leh) A K Sahu and attended, among others, by the 14 Corps Brigadier General Staff Brig Sarat Chand and Colonel Inderjit Singh.
While the absence of proper maps was agreed upon, the meeting all the same felt: “However, it is clear and accepted that we are withdrawing from LAC and our area has shrunk over a period of time. This process is very slow but we have lost substantial amount of land in 20-25 years.”
According to the minutes of the meeting, it was also identified that “there is a lack of institutional memory in various agencies as well as clear policy on this issue which in the long run has resulted in loss of Indian territory in favour of China.”
The meeting was called to ensure proper protection to nomads who move with their cattle to the Dokbug area of Nyoma sector during the winter months every year. In December 2008, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had damaged their tents and threatened them to vacate the land.
“They (Chinese) have threatened the nomadic people, who had been using the Dokbug area (in Ladakh sector) area for grazing for decades, in a way to snatch our land in inches. A Chinese proverb is famous in the world — better do in inches than in yards,” a report filed by former sub divisional magistrate (Nyoma) Tsering Norboo had said.
Complaints
Norboo was deputed by the state government to probe the complaints of incursion of the Chinese Army in the Dokbug area and threats to the local shepherds to leave the land as it belonged to them.
The area has been used by the shepherds to graze their livestock as the area is warmer compared to other parts of Ladakh.
The SDM contended that it was another attempt by the Chinese to term, and claim, the territory disputed in the same fashion as they had taken Nag Tsang area opposite to Phuktse airfield in 1984, Nakung in 1991 and Lungma-Serding in 1992.
Last year, Chinese troops had entered nearly 1.5 km into the Indian territory on July 31 near Mount Gya, recognised as International border by India and China, and painted boulders and rocks with “China” in red spray paint.
The 22,420 feet Mount Gya, also known as “fair princess of snow” by the Army, is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and regarded as International border by the two countries.
Before this, Chinese helicopters had violated Indian air space on June 21 along the Line of Actual Control in Chumar region and also dropped some expired food.
China grabs India's land
China 'gobbles’ up 640 sq km of Indian land in Ladakh
New Delhi: India may have lost nearly 640 square km of area on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in the past few months due to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) policy of preventing Indian troops from patrolling upto the Indian perception of the LAC.
This, in military parlance, is referred to as a strategy of 'area denial' which leads to de-facto takeover of land.
According to reports aired by TV channels on Thursday, a report submitted by the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) to the Government has purportedly said the PLA has "incrementally" occupied nearly 640 square km of area on the LAC in Ladakh in the past few months. Patrolling limits set by incremental PLA area denial in the eastern Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir have now become the de facto LAC.
The report also says that there has effectively been a loss of 640 sq km of Indian territory across three sectors in Depsang, Chumar and Pangong Tso in the Ladakh region. The issue was also raised in the Lok Sabha on Thursday evening by BJP MP Yashwant Sinha who demanded a statement from the Government.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony may make a statement in Parliament on the issue on Friday. Army sources said they were not aware of any NSAB report but sought to dismiss any claims that territory had been lost to China. Indian troops are still patrolling upto the Indian perception of the LAC in Ladakh and other areas, the sources said.
The NSAB report says that Indian troops are no longer able to access at least four points on the patrol line, thereby leading to denying of an area earlier accessible to them, and that after PLA incursions in April and May, the Depsang Bulge area in Ladakh is no longer accessible to Indian forces.
The report also says that approximately 70 sq km of Indian territory is now effectively under the PLA's control at Pangong Tso. This may confirm India's worst fears that an aggressive China is now seeking to slowly push back India by stealth in a land-grab of epic proportions.
In April this year, the Chinese PLA had set up five tents in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of north-eastern Ladakh in J&K and this had led to a nearly three week-long stand-off with Indian troops in the area who then also set up tents facing the Chinese tents. Both sides had told the other to move back.
The issue was finally settled amicably after the tents of both armies were dismantled.
India says that transgressions occur by the Chinese PLA since the perception of the two countries on the demarcation of the LAC is different and that both armies patrol upto their respective perception of the LAC. This leads often to border patrols of the two armies coming face-to-face with each other.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony had recently said that both countries were engaging in "practical and effective" negotiations on working out a mechanism to resolve border issues. The Minister had however acknowledged that one "can't expect miracles" on any immediate resolution of the border dispute with China.
China 'gobbles’ up 640 sq km of Indian land in Ladakh | Deccan Chronicle
@Irfan Baloch
The area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China has 'shrunk' over a period of time and India has lost 'substantial' land in the last two decades, according to an official report.
At a recent meeting in Leh, attended by officials from the Jammu and Kashmir government, Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Army, it was agreed that there was difference in the maps of various agencies and that there was lack of proper mapping of the area.
The meeting was chaired by Commissioner (Leh) A K Sahu and attended, among others, by the 14 Corps Brigadier General Staff Brig Sarat Chand and Colonel Inderjit Singh.
While the absence of proper maps was agreed upon, the meeting all the same felt: “However, it is clear and accepted that we are withdrawing from LAC and our area has shrunk over a period of time. This process is very slow but we have lost substantial amount of land in 20-25 years.”
According to the minutes of the meeting, it was also identified that “there is a lack of institutional memory in various agencies as well as clear policy on this issue which in the long run has resulted in loss of Indian territory in favour of China.”
The meeting was called to ensure proper protection to nomads who move with their cattle to the Dokbug area of Nyoma sector during the winter months every year. In December 2008, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had damaged their tents and threatened them to vacate the land.
“They (Chinese) have threatened the nomadic people, who had been using the Dokbug area (in Ladakh sector) area for grazing for decades, in a way to snatch our land in inches. A Chinese proverb is famous in the world — better do in inches than in yards,” a report filed by former sub divisional magistrate (Nyoma) Tsering Norboo had said.
Complaints
Norboo was deputed by the state government to probe the complaints of incursion of the Chinese Army in the Dokbug area and threats to the local shepherds to leave the land as it belonged to them.
The area has been used by the shepherds to graze their livestock as the area is warmer compared to other parts of Ladakh.
The SDM contended that it was another attempt by the Chinese to term, and claim, the territory disputed in the same fashion as they had taken Nag Tsang area opposite to Phuktse airfield in 1984, Nakung in 1991 and Lungma-Serding in 1992.
Last year, Chinese troops had entered nearly 1.5 km into the Indian territory on July 31 near Mount Gya, recognised as International border by India and China, and painted boulders and rocks with “China” in red spray paint.
The 22,420 feet Mount Gya, also known as “fair princess of snow” by the Army, is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and regarded as International border by the two countries.
Before this, Chinese helicopters had violated Indian air space on June 21 along the Line of Actual Control in Chumar region and also dropped some expired food.
China grabs India's land
China 'gobbles’ up 640 sq km of Indian land in Ladakh
New Delhi: India may have lost nearly 640 square km of area on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in the past few months due to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) policy of preventing Indian troops from patrolling upto the Indian perception of the LAC.
This, in military parlance, is referred to as a strategy of 'area denial' which leads to de-facto takeover of land.
According to reports aired by TV channels on Thursday, a report submitted by the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) to the Government has purportedly said the PLA has "incrementally" occupied nearly 640 square km of area on the LAC in Ladakh in the past few months. Patrolling limits set by incremental PLA area denial in the eastern Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir have now become the de facto LAC.
The report also says that there has effectively been a loss of 640 sq km of Indian territory across three sectors in Depsang, Chumar and Pangong Tso in the Ladakh region. The issue was also raised in the Lok Sabha on Thursday evening by BJP MP Yashwant Sinha who demanded a statement from the Government.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony may make a statement in Parliament on the issue on Friday. Army sources said they were not aware of any NSAB report but sought to dismiss any claims that territory had been lost to China. Indian troops are still patrolling upto the Indian perception of the LAC in Ladakh and other areas, the sources said.
The NSAB report says that Indian troops are no longer able to access at least four points on the patrol line, thereby leading to denying of an area earlier accessible to them, and that after PLA incursions in April and May, the Depsang Bulge area in Ladakh is no longer accessible to Indian forces.
The report also says that approximately 70 sq km of Indian territory is now effectively under the PLA's control at Pangong Tso. This may confirm India's worst fears that an aggressive China is now seeking to slowly push back India by stealth in a land-grab of epic proportions.
In April this year, the Chinese PLA had set up five tents in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of north-eastern Ladakh in J&K and this had led to a nearly three week-long stand-off with Indian troops in the area who then also set up tents facing the Chinese tents. Both sides had told the other to move back.
The issue was finally settled amicably after the tents of both armies were dismantled.
India says that transgressions occur by the Chinese PLA since the perception of the two countries on the demarcation of the LAC is different and that both armies patrol upto their respective perception of the LAC. This leads often to border patrols of the two armies coming face-to-face with each other.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony had recently said that both countries were engaging in "practical and effective" negotiations on working out a mechanism to resolve border issues. The Minister had however acknowledged that one "can't expect miracles" on any immediate resolution of the border dispute with China.
China 'gobbles’ up 640 sq km of Indian land in Ladakh | Deccan Chronicle
@Irfan Baloch
