50,000 additional troops to be deployed along China border

July 17, 2013 22:08

Boosting army's war fighting capabilities along the Line of Actual Control, the government today given a go ahead to the creation of a corps including deployment of 50,000 additional troops along the China border at a cost of around Rs 65,000 crore.

The cabinet committee on security headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the proposal in its meeting,sources told PTI. As part of the plans, the around 1.3 million-strong army is expected to raise the new Corps' headquarters at Panagarhin West Bengal along with two divisions in Bihar and Assam and other units from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh.

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