Eye on China, govt plans a 1,700-km ‘frontier highway’

The government, in the next five years, will build a new highway in Arunachal Pradesh that will run close to the India-Tibet-China-Myanmar border. At some locations, the ‘frontier highway’ will be as close as 20km from the international border. The road will come as a big boost for seamless movement of defence forces and equipment to the border which has been seeing repeated incursion attempts by China