India To Continue Building Infrastructure In Ladakh

India will not stop infrastructure development projects in strategic areas along the nearly 3,500-km Sino-India border, notwithstanding China's well-coordinated efforts to stall them by attempting to vitiate the situation in areas like eastern Ladakh, government sources said on Tuesday.

- Abhishek Bhalla

After detailed discussions within the security establishment, it has been decided that India must match Chinese mobilization and not stop road construction on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh region, top sources told India Today TV.

In a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with three service chiefs and CDS Gen Bipin Rawat on Tuesday to review the current situation in Ladakh amid the standoff with China and India’s response.

“The discussions carried on for over an hour where the minister was briefed about India’s response in matching up to the Chinese troops’ mobilization,” said a source.