Bhupen Goswami
GUWAHATI : Due to poor communication it is very difficult to live in villages along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Army has set up a free mobile telephone booth for the villagers of the remote village of Mago-lime in the eastern Kameng district of China’s borderless Arunachal Pradesh. Defense sources gave this information. GSM’s (Global System for Mobile Communication) Public Call Office (PCO) set up, so that people can interact with others according to their needs. Mention here that to reach Kibithu, India’s easternmost administrative circle, the rural people have to walk a long and lonely route along the winding route of the Lohit River in Arunachal Pradesh.
Located in Anjaw district, Kibithu has a dozen villages, including Kaho and Musai, which fall within a 10 km radius of the McMahon Line that separates India from China in the east. These areas were occupied by the Chinese during the 1962 war. Were inThen in 2016-17, I visited Sikkim and Ladakh to write on life and infrastructure construction on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). On the ground, the presence of security personnel and the physicality of hills, hills and streams over the years As a result of the occupation spread over many parts. Defense spokesman Lt Col P Khongsai said that there is no communication facility in remote areas of Mago-lime, telephone connectivity is 28 km away.He said that there was a problem in promoting social life here due to lack of telephone connectivity. Pleased with the availability of this facility, it will open many new avenues of opportunity.On the other hand, in the villages along the India-China border, China is removing many people from Shannan County in southwest China. China has settled people from its 96 villages adjoining India and Bhutan by building new homes off the border.
These new homes have provided electricity, water and internet for the villagers. China has set a target to complete the work of relocating people from all 96 villages by September 30. It has also deployed missiles at Doklam on the Indo-Bhutan border. Recently Arunachal was also the target of his dispute with Bhutan. However, China claims that the work of removing Tibetans from the border started in the year 2018 itself. At that time, 72 people from 24 houses of Le village were shifted to new homes.
