India wants good relations with its neighbours: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said India wants good relations with its neighbours.

Addressing a function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) here, he said there seemed to be a difference of perception regarding the Sino-Indian border, and that India's efforts should be to come out with some solution to this problem. He said that China should come forward as India wants to solve this problem.

Singh said that India is the only country that considers the entire world as its family, but some countries did not like the strengthening of ties between India and the US.

Rajnath said that very soon a mobile tower facility would be started at the border that will enable jawans serving on the border to talk to their family members at home through phones. He said that permission to install 134 mobile towers has been given.

Assuring better border infrastructure, he said that 34 new border roads have been approved, besides work on 27 priority border roads has started.

Rajnath further said he recently visited Israel and saw that modern technology was used by Israel to guard its borders. Lauding the ITBP, he said that the former has also tried its best to start e-office and going for maximum digitalization.

The Union Home Minister further said that he has understood several problems being confronted by ITBP personnel during his tenure of last seven to eight months.

Noting that the entire life of ITBP jawans is spent while serving on snow and mountains, Rajnath assured that the ITBP jawans must get benefits of rotational transfer so that besides serving at tough and inhospitable hilly terrain, they get an opportunity to serve at plains as well.

Commending the ITBP's illustrious history, he said that in the last 52 years of its service the ITBP has scripted a great success story for itself. Rajnath said that if the Himalayas is guarding us then this is also the fact that ITBP jawans are the 'Himalaya Putras'.

He also recalled the bravery of the ITBP jawans during the terror attack at the Indian consulate in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Union Home Minister inaugurated the new building complex of 32 Battalion of ITBP at Maharajpur in Kanpur.

Incurring a cost of Rs 36.16 crore, the ITBP residential complex comprises of newly-built administrative building, residential complex, transport place, quarter guard, mess for officers and subordinate officers and two jawan barracks.