Constructed at a price of Rs 724 crore, these will massively increase India’s border infrastructure, principally alongside the Chinese language border, from Ladakh to Arunachal.

Talking on the occasion, the defence minister “PM Modi’s authorities is engaged on creating higher & clean commuting amenities for the folks within the nation, particularly within the North-East areas. These roads are important from the strategic viewpoint too.”
The Siyom bridge on the Alongside-Yinkiong Highway- a 100-meter ‘Class-70’ metal arch superstructure- will facilitate sooner induction of troops, heavy tools like howitzers and mechanised autos to ahead areas of the Higher Siang district, Tuting and Yinkiong areas alongside the LAC (Line of Precise Management) with China.
His go to to the state comes lower than a month after Indian forces thwarted an try by Chinese language troopers to arrange an commentary put up, far inside Indian territory near the LAC, close to Tawang.
“India has all the time been in opposition to warfare. India has neither began a warfare in opposition to any nation nor captured an inch of land from any nation however this shouldn’t be taken with no consideration,” he mentioned.
21 different bridges, three roads and three extra infrastructure initiatives in Arunachal Pradesh, J&Okay, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Punjab and Rajasthan, have been nearly inaugurated by Singh from the Siyom bridge website.
In recent times India has been capable of shrink the differential with China when it comes to border infrastructure alongside the three,488-km LAC by constructing a number of roads, tunnels, bridges, troop habitats, everlasting defences, helipads and airfields.
The flare up between Indian and Chinese language troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in June 2020 supplied additional spur to infra initiatives on the anvil alongside the Chinese language border.

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Watch Rajnath Singh inaugurates Siyom bridge in Arunachal Pradesh