India developing war preparedness with China: Defence Secretary

India is improving its war preparedness at its north-eastern border with China, a top defence official said.

"We have to make developments there (north-eastern border with China). Our infrastructure has to improve; our war preparedness has to improve. We are working on that," Defence Secretary R K Mathur said on Saturday.

Mathur further informed that India is procuring some Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from Israel.

"Israel is a major defence partner for India and we have been buying a lot of things from them as we are buying from many other countries also. There are some UAV's - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that we are going to buy from Israel and we have placed order for that," said Mathur.

The Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) are jointly developing the Barak 8 air and missile defence system which will be used by both Israeli Navy and Indian Defence Forces.

Mathur, who was on a day-long visit to the state, informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had instructed him to visit the region.

"I have come here as per instruction of Prime Minister where he wanted every Secretary to the Government of India to visit the state of his own cadre," he said.

Mathur, the former chief secretary of Tripura, had a meeting with Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and other senior officials.