50 new borders outposts to come up along Sino-Indian frontier

Neelabh Srivastava
New Delhi, Oct 25 (PTI) With an aim to increase vigil
along the Sino-Indian border, Indian government is planning to
set up 50 new border outposts (BOP) all along the icy
frontier.

The plan to establish more BOPs along the Sino-Indian
border will allow troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police to
undertake Short Range Patrols (SRP).
This will reduce the inter-BOP distance, which exceeds
more than 50-kilometres, and the present Long Range Patrols
(LRP) can be made effective by having more SRPs, official
sources said.
Currently the ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police), which
guards the 3,500-km-long border, has more than 140 BOPs in the
inhospitable terrain that are prone to frequent blizzards,
avalanches, heavy snowfall and have temperatures as low as
minus 20 to minus 40 degrees.
The posts are located at heights ranging from 9,000 to
18,500 feet while 60 per cent of them are not connected by
roads.
Most of the BOPs are located on hills and almost 30 per
cent are maintained by helicopters. Communication between
patrol parties and the base locations and posts is often
disrupted by bad weather.
Once the new posts come up, not only the patrols would be
effective, they would be able to cover more areas
qualitatively, the sources said. (MORE) PTI NES
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