Published: 10th Feb, 2024
India to construct fencing along Indo-Myanmar border
Context
The Centre has decided to construct a fence along the entire 1,643-kilometer-long Indo-Myanmar border.
The Plan
- Target: to construct a fence along the entire 1,643-kilometer-long Indo-Myanmar border.
- Aim: to enhance surveillance capabilities and establish a patrol track along the border for effective monitoring.
- The Bordering States
- Manipur shares a 398-kilometer border with Myanmar.
- Out of the total border length, a 10 km stretch in Moreh, Manipur, has already been fenced.
- Arunachal Pradesh shares a 520-kilometer border
- Nagaland’s border with Myanmar spans 215 kilometers.
India & its neighbourhood
- India has the third-largest international border in the world. It also serves as the most sensitive border of the world.
- 9 countries in total share the international borders with India out of which 7 countries share land borders whereas 2 countries share sea borders.
- The length of the land border is 15,106.7 km and the coastline border is 7,516.6 km
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Countries |
Border Length |
Boundaries |
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Afghanistan
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The border length is 106 km. |
The Indian state which shares its border with this country is Ladakh (PoK). |
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Bangladesh
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The border length is 4096.7 km |
There are many states which share its border with this country. The states are – West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Assam. |
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Bhutan
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The border length is 699 km. |
The states which share the border with this country are – West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Assam. |
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China
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The border length is 3488 km. The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the borderline shared by India and China.
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The regions which share the border with this country are – Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, and Sikkim. |
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Myanmar
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The border length is – 1643 km. |
The regions which share the Myanmar border are – Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland |
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Nepal
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The border length is 1751 km. |
The regions which share the Nepal-India border are – West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. |
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Pakistan
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The border length is 3323 km. The Line of Control (LoC) is shared between Pakistan and India. |
The regions which share the Indo-Pak border are – Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan Gujarat, and Ladakh |
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Sri Lanka
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This country also shares a sea-line border with India. It lies in the South-West part of the Indian Ocean below the Lakshadweep Island |
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