COMBAT TRAINING CENTRE

CIVILIAN TRAINING CENTRE FOR SUDDEN WAR

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THE PROBLEM
• The tiny east Himalayan region has been a key flashpoint
between India and China for decades. It saw clashes in their
1962 war. Five years later, fighting along its border, left several
hundred soldiers dead on either side.
• The former kingdom was an Indian protectorate at the time, and
only became the country's 22nd state after a referendum in
1975.
• Sikkim is near a high-altitude plateau known as Doklam in India
and Donglang in China. NATHULA
• India fears that greater Chinese road access to the plateau would
threaten India's strategically vulnerable "chicken's neck", the
20km (12-mile) wide Siliguri Corridor that links seven north-
eastern states, including Assam, to the rest of the country.
• The border in Sikkim is also crucial for another reason. Indian
military experts say it's the only area through which India could
make an offensive response to a Chinese incursion, and the only
stretch of the Himalayan frontier where Indian troops have a
terrain and tactical advantage. They have higher ground, and the
Chinese positions, there are squeezed between India and
Bhutan.
NEWS HEADLINES
“Dozens of Indian and Chinese soldiers have
exchanged physical blows in a clash on the
shared border, Indian media report”

“For four weeks, India and China have been

involved in a stand-off along part of their
3,500km (2,174-mile) shared border”

“Chinese and Indian troops have reportedly

clashed again in a disputed border area,
with injuries on both sides, Indian media say”

Highlights we see every other day

In case of a war emergency, there is only one exit way
from Sikkim and that is the rangpo check point.
HOW DO WE TACKLE THIS?
A combat training centre to train the civilians and get the civilians combat – ready.
BUT WHY NOT LEAVE THE WAR ZONE INSTEAD?
• Because it is their home. Leaving it would mean abandoning the central location for their life.
• Because they have no alternative place to go, except a refugee camp, where living is usually
neither stable nor pleasant.
• Because it means abandoning their business, which in some cases means the tools and
equipment they have spent their career assembling.
• Because it is the traditional location of their family, and leaving it would mean abandoning
such things as their family graves.
• Because they do not know where to go, and the fear of that unknown is greater than the
fear of staying.
THANK YOU