India-China border extremely peaceful; no new challenges: ITBP

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The Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Saturday said the Sino-India border was 'extremely peaceful' and there were no new threats to its security, rejecting latest reports of incursion attempts being made by the dragon nation.

"What I personally commit myself to is that there is some dispute in certain sectors because of the Line of Actual Control at the Indo-China border. But it is extremely peaceful. There is nothing which requires any measures from Indian side to further guard the border," Director General of ITBP Ranjit Sinha told reporters here.

Noting that border dispute between the two countries dates back to the 1962 war, he said, "Both the parties (India and China leaders) have talked it. There are many committees which meet on regular intervals. The border there is very peaceful and government is taking action on the controversial matters."

Asked about recent reports of air and land space violation by the Chinese side, the DG said, "First you should know the boundary. If you are not knowing your home's boundary then how would you say there has been incursion. It is a matter on which talks are still underway."

"There are no new challenges as such. We are guarding that border. In fact we are the only police given the task of guarding it. There is nothing which we can talk about or which requires the attention of the media," he insisted.

ITBP guards the 3,488 km Indo-China frontier from Karakoram pass to Jechap La.

To a question over his meeting with the Indian Air Force chief over the latest air space violation by China in Leh area of Jammu and Kashmir, the ITBP DG said, "I have read it (violation attempt) in the newspapers. When we met we had talked as to how we can mutually work along the Indo-Tibetan border."

"We do not have any service for air surveillance so that we can find whether there has been such violation or not. We are not equipped for it. We do not have radars so that we can find out whether or not there has been violation of our air space," Sinha said adding that the matter seeking permission for its own air surveillance wing is pending with the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The ITBP chief rejected reports of Chinese bunkers on the Indian side saying, "I am not aware of any such (thing)".

"Our border is very peaceful as of date. And there has not been any major activity (related to incursion)," Sinha said.