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Army's Demchok Mission a success

The Army has completed laying an irrigation pipeline for residents of villages in the Demchok region of Eastern Ladakh despite a face-off last week with Chinese troops over the work.
●    The irrigation project was being built under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to link a village with a “hot spring”.
●    While the three-day face-off ended on Saturday, the Army engineers continued the work on laying a pipeline for nearly a kilometre and completed the work on Sunday.
●    Last Wednesday, the Chinese side objected to the work saying that no construction was allowed on the border as per earlier agreements.
●    However, the Indian side countered it, saying the restriction applied only to defence constructions. A face-off ensued.
●    This is the first time since 2014 when the Chinese Army had come deep inside the Indian territory in Demchok in protest against an ongoing irrigation project.

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