Monitor Indo-China border: Parliamentary Panel
NEW DELHI: India's Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs has recommended that the government should continue to monitor the border with China, including Dokalam to meet any contingency.
"India and China have a long history of military face-offs along the border but Dokalam was the longest one so far as the Sumdorung Chu incident, and arguably the most grave in its implications. In terms of the security, implications and number of troops involved it was on a far higher scale than the previous such incidents," the committee said in its report on Sino-Indian ties.
At the end of the 72-day stand-off it was made clear to China that India will not countenance any change in the status quo or unilateral attempts to change the trijunction point between India, Bhutan and China, the Committee led by former MoS External Affairs Shashi Tharoor pointed out.
"Our defence forces and our diplomatic corps have shown firmness in responding to the crisis without actually being drawn into any kind of political rhetoric. The Committee hope that all this must have made it clear to the Chinese not to attempt any such misadventure again," the report recalled.
The Committee would strongly desire that India should continue to monitor the Chinese activities along the border in general and the area in particular very intensely, to improve the military infrastructure (particularly roads) and equipment (particularly hightechnology gear), and to prepare our security forces to respond befittingly to any contingency.
"India and China have a long history of military face-offs along the border but Dokalam was the longest one so far as the Sumdorung Chu incident, and arguably the most grave in its implications. In terms of the security, implications and number of troops involved it was on a far higher scale than the previous such incidents," the committee said in its report on Sino-Indian ties.
At the end of the 72-day stand-off it was made clear to China that India will not countenance any change in the status quo or unilateral attempts to change the trijunction point between India, Bhutan and China, the Committee led by former MoS External Affairs Shashi Tharoor pointed out.
"Our defence forces and our diplomatic corps have shown firmness in responding to the crisis without actually being drawn into any kind of political rhetoric. The Committee hope that all this must have made it clear to the Chinese not to attempt any such misadventure again," the report recalled.
The Committee would strongly desire that India should continue to monitor the Chinese activities along the border in general and the area in particular very intensely, to improve the military infrastructure (particularly roads) and equipment (particularly hightechnology gear), and to prepare our security forces to respond befittingly to any contingency.