The new Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande conducted a security review of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s positions in East Ladakh and counter-deployments of the Indian Army earlier this month, in the wake of the Chinese Army constructing a double-span bridge 16 kilometres east of the once contested finger 8 on the north banks of Pangong Tso. Making his priorities clear, General Pande spent his first visit to East Ladakh after taking over as Chief on May 1, auditing LAC deployments, people familiar with the matter said.
HT learns that General Pande was satisfied with Indian Army deployments along the 1597 km LAC in East Ladakh, but a serious note has been taken of frantic military infra upgradation by PLA in Occupied Aksai Chin area. Both the armies are matched in deployment across the LAC with Chinese armour and rocket regiments stationed at Rudog base, south of Pangong Tso, and at Xiadullah in the restive Xinjiang military region. The PLA Air Force has stationed its fighters and bombers at Gar Gunsa across Demchok and at Hotan airbase in Xinjiang.
The Indian Army is also fully deployed along the LAC with roads and bridges that can accommodate tanks or armoured personnel carriers all the way up to Daulet Beg Oldi and as many as seven bridges coming up on Galwan river to handle any military emergency.
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