(TibetanReview.net, Jun04’26) – In order to keep its border areas inhabited and therefore alert to cross border intrusion from China, India is building its first First Model Border Village in Ladakh. On Jun 3, the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena laid the foundation stone for the project at Chumur, a settlement located 16,700 feet above sea level in eastern Ladakh’s Changthang region, reported ndtv.com Jun 3.
Chumur, a remote village of just 24 households with 91 people near the India-Tibet border, would be developed as Ladakh’s first Model Border Village under India’s Vibrant Village Programme, aimed at creating “self-reliant, climate-resilient,...





