What will happen next after completion of LAC disengagement in Ladakh? Understand in 5 points

New Delhi : India and China have almost completed disengagement from the two remaining face-off sites at Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh. In this, the armies of both the countries have almost returned to the situation before April 2020 after removing their temporary posts, sheds, tents and other structures built in both the areas. After this, the plan is to completely verify the mutual withdrawal in the next two days on the ground as well as through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our associate newspaper Times of India has quoted top Defense Establishment sources as saying. That some verification has already started. After this, joint patrolling will be done from both the sides. The strength of the patrol will depend on the task assigned to them as well as the distance to be covered. A source said short range patrols consist of 10-15 soldiers, while long range patrols consist of 20-25 soldiers.

Disengagement and verification on LAC almost complete, know when the armies of India and China will go out on patrolling.

Access to traditional patrolling point

India says our troops should now have full and unrestricted access to our traditional patrolling points (PPs), where our troops were earlier being prevented from going. PLA will inform India before sending its patrol. It is noteworthy that under the ‘patrolling arrangement’ for Depsang-Demchok, which was announced by India on October 21 after diplomatic and military talks, paving the way for the Modi-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia two days later. Did. Meanwhile, sources also said that talks are underway to de-escalate the situation in ‘sensitive’ areas like Yangtse, Asaphila and Subansiri river valleys in Arunachal Pradesh

what will happen next now

1. Disengagement in Demchok-Depsang will take two days. On-spot checking will take place after all PLA obstructions are removed.
2. After this, Indian soldiers will get unhindered access to their traditional patrolling points. Whereas shepherds will also be able to graze their animals.
3. The situation in other sensitive areas like Yangtse, Asphala and Subansiri river valley in Arunachal will be normalized through talks.
4. Military officials of both the countries are talking about restoring patrolling rights in the buffer zone created in Galwan.
5. However, after the Chinese encroachment in April-May 2020, the situation on the border is not yet completely back to normal.

On LAC, 40% tents and infrastructure were removed from both sides in Demchok and Depsang.

It will take time to resolve the border dispute

However, this does not mean that the ongoing border standoff with China, which began after several PLA incursions into eastern Ladakh in April-May 2020, is anywhere close to being resolved. For this to happen, China would have to agree to reduce tensions along the 3,488-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) stretching from eastern Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh. Also, both sides will have to withdraw more than 1,00,000 of their troops, who have been deployed on the front lines along the entire border.

China was stopping Indian soldiers

‘Full confirmation’ of the Depsang-Demchok disengagement will take two days as Indian strategic ‘commanders’ will visit some PPs to check whether all ‘PLA obstructions’ have been removed. The source said that at some places, it takes six to eight hours to reach our PP. In the strategically located Depsang plains, facing the important Daulat Beg Oldie and Karakoram Pass in the north, Chinese troops have withdrawn from their positions on the ‘east’ side of the ‘bottleneck’ area, while Indian troops have retreated from their positions on the ‘west’ side. Have retreated from. The PLA was till now actively blocking Indian troops in the Bottleneck area, which is about 18 km inside what India considers its territory.

Now shepherds will be able to graze animals

Similarly, Indian troops will now have access to two PPs at the Charding Ninglung Nala Track Junction near Demchok in the south, while Indian pastoralists will also be able to take their animals to traditional pastures there. The Depsang-Demchok agreement does not include the creation of a no-petrol buffer zone until September 2022 that came after the earlier disengagement. The rival military officials are separately discussing restoration of patrolling rights in the buffer zones in Galwan, the north bank of Pangong Tso, the Kailash Range and the larger Gogra-Hot Springs area, which vary from 3 km to 10 km. It came largely in the area that India considers its territory.