Galwan Valley face-off: India’s border state infrastructure push has irked China

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Galwan Valley face-off: India’s border state infrastructure push has irked China

Seventy-two hours after 20 Indian soldiers perished inflicting casualties on the Chinese Army, Indian Army completed the construction of a bridge in the same area, which would give better access to the points close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is an addition to a spree of engineering and infrastructure building in the border regions, which has been a key factor in increased Chinese hostility over the recent years.

The proximate cause of Chinese belligerence is the completion of the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DSDBO) Road, completed by the Border Roads Organization (BRO) in April 2019 after nineteen years of work. This road connects Leh in Ladakh to DBO, the furthest airstrip near the LAC. In 2008, the Indian Air Force landed an AN-32 to reactivate this airstrip at the base of the Karakoram Pass. The area is now accessible by road from Leh. 

Sikkim on the eastern front and Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on the western side.