Lying entirely in the northern hemisphere, the mainland extends between latitudes 8° 4' and 37° 6' north, longitudes 68° 7' and 97° 25' east and measures about 3,214 km from north to south between the extreme latitudes and about 2,933 km from east to west between the extreme longitudes.
India's border management strategy has four main elements which are border guarding, border regulation, development of border areas, and bilateral institutional mechanisms.
Boundary Commission, consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain.
The Indian border is the third-largest border after China and Russia. The country's land border is 15,200 km, and its coastline border is 7515 km.
(a) to (c):The Government of India have undertaken construction of fencing along the international borders with Pakistan since 1980s. 1915 km of fencing has been completed against the total sanction of 2043 km. Along Indo-desh border, construction of fencing started in 1986.
India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coast line of the mainland including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6 km.
Answer: India shares borders with nine nations; two are sea borders, and the other seven are land borders. Answer: Afghanistan, desh, Bhutan, China, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are India's neighbours.
Radcliffe Line was Declared as a Boundary Between India and Pakistan on 17th August 1947 - This Day in History.
The Durand Line was established in 1893 as the international border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Indian Empire by Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat of the Indian Civil Service, and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Emir of Afghanistan, to fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve ...
The scheme aims to enhance the security along the borders of the country and involve implementing a number of projects for the development of border infrastructure such as Border Fence, Border Roads, Border Floodlights, Border Out Posts (BOPs), Helipads and foot tracks along the international borders of the country.