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Border area development is an important national priority. What are the resilient steps needed for peaceful borders?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Political Aspects

India's 15,106.7 km land boundary touches 394 blocks of 111 border districts across 17 States and Union Territories. The priority follows from an inversion: the border is the first line of defence but the last line of development, terminal in every plan geography, and a hollow frontier is a permeable one.

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