SOMETIMES SOME stray news about borders being crossed by our neighbours are reported in some channels or they get some small piece of corner in the newspapers dominated by other important headlines. Although border security is one of the important issues very less is reported about the same. Behind the sleepy villages of the Ladakh and Leh runs the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which is an area where Indian and Chinese troops claim stretches of their own. A number of transgressions have been reported in the last one year but no news of any problems has surfaced yet.

China and India, both countries try to assert power over their piece of land and once in a while send patrol to the border. Whenever both the parties come face to face they just show their banner and request the other not to enter their territory. While this seems like a peaceful method, last year more than dozen transgressions should have caused worry lines on the faces of army people at the border.

There has been a marked increase of activity on the Chinese part of the border as reported in ndtv.com. New huts have been built for the nomads of the region. Indian surveillance reveals a People's Liberation Army (PLA) truck showing the Chinese flag driving on a hard road. The Indian intelligence suspects that all the upcoming infrastructure has a dual purpose of civic and military.

It is time that the Indian Army took care as till 2006 nothing existed on the Chinese side of the border. However, in 2008, before Beijing Olympics the building of the infrastructure started. Till now peace has been maintained by both the parties over the world's largest undemarcated border but now more care should be taken.