Panagarh is ultimately the centre piece of a whole new web of military infrastructure that is being built on either side of the Siliguri corridor as we can see above. Apart from serving as nodes to strategically support the MSC these multi-use military facilities also have something to do with the fact that the Indian establishment now has a deep suspicion of Bangladeshi aims as well. Bangladesh has been involved in a flurry of bilaterals with the Chinese and the Bangladeshi Army (BA) has in recent times conducted exercises that are suggestive of an offensive posture aimed at disrupting Indias connectivity with the North East via the Siliguri Corridor. There is now a concern that similar to the Sino-Pak coordination in the northern sector, Sino-Bangla coordination may be being envisaged by Beijing in Indias Eastern corridors. The key enablers for such a scheme of things may be Chinas build-up of strategic infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau and its conscious equippage of the Bangladeshi military. After all Tibet is separated from Bangladesh by a rather narrow stretch of Indian Territory albeit punctuated by Himalayan terrain. ~ Saurav Jha ~ . ibnlive.in/blogs/india/sauravjha/2976/65350/the-indian-military-looks-east.html?classic
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