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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:17:50 +0100From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: [Assam] India no security concern and want to continue occupation
of Zanang claiming as your Arunachal? Be concerned of your so-called main land.
Leave Assam and her contagious historical regions to fend for themselves
INDEPENDENTLY as in the yester years.
India in a fix as China plans road to Everest20 Jun, 2007 l 0009 hrs ISTl
Saibal Dasgupta/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
http://www.samachar.com/showurl.php?rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_in_a_fix_as_China_plans_road_to_Everest/rssarticleshow/2134972.cms&news=India%20in%20a%20fix%20as%20China%20plans%20road%20to%20Everest&pubDate=Wed+Jun+20+12%3A11%3A23+IST+2007&keyword=toi_home
BEIJING: In an obvious attempt to stun the world at the time of the Olympics,
China announced on Tuesday that it was building a metalled road to the Mount
Everest base camp, raising howls of protests from environment activists and
generating muted security anxieties in New Delhi. The construction of the
108-km road to a height of 5,200 metres will begin within a week - and like
most Chinese execution of grand projects, will be completed in four months. The
plan is to transport the Olympic torch to this point, from where Chinese
runners (or mountaineers) will carry it to the world's tallest peak.
Environment activists are appalled at China, not for its gumption but because a
blacktop road will mean more people, more burning of fuel, more construction
and more refuse in an area whose ecosystem is fragile and already threatened.
They cite the havoc wrought in other glacial areas where roads have been built,
mostly pilgrim spots like Badrinath and Gangotri. Neither the green concerns
nor India's anxiety is expected to deter the Chinese. The fact that
construction will begin in a week indicates that advanced preparations like
landscape surveys and geological investigations have already been carried out
in the mountainous region in Tibet. The audicious project is bound to be an
engineering feat as was the Beijing-Lhasa railway project, the highest railway
in the world. The road will link Tingri County of Xigaze Prefecture in Tibet,
lying at the foot of the mountain to the base camp. It entails building a
"blacktop highway fenced by undulating guardrails", costing $19.7 million, on
roughly where a jeepable path exists. The road plan also suggests that Chinese
authorities may have discussed the project with Nepal, which shares Mount
Qomolangma, as Mt Everest is called in Tibetan, with China. But it's not known
if India, too, has been told. Only a day earlier, defence minister A K Antony
had spoken with concern about China rapidly building infrastructure on its side
of the border, and which was making India to step up infrstructure projects on
its side. Official sources in New Delhi said the road per se did not spell any
fresh security concerns for India, although it would be foolish to miss the
symbolic worth of the grand project for the Chinese. Mt Everest, they said, was
held in veneration in Tibet, and the road coming soon after the railway
project, was meant to rub in Chinese president Hu Jintao's Tibet policy that is
designed to hasten the plateau's integration with the mainland. Announcing the
project, the Chinese official Xinhua News Agency , hoped the new highway would
become a major route for tourists and mountaineers. There are signs that the
planning for the road was carried out in some secrecy and even the Organising
Committee of the Beijing Olympic Games (BOCOG) did not know about it until
recently.
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