Intelligence Bureau Director Nehchal Sandhu, however, while briefing the MPs, said a close watch was being maintained along the India-China border and that there was nothing to be worried about, official sources said today.
Participating in the meeting held here last night, some MPs had voiced their concern at the repeated incursions by Chinese troops in Ladakh region and their growing presence in PoK, the sources said.
According to official data presented in Parliament earlier this year, there were nearly 500 Chinese incursions in the last three years. Of this, 218 was in 2010 and 213 in 2011. There were 64 such incursions till April this year.
Intelligence agencies have been reporting presence of around 4,000 Chinese troops across PoK. Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh had said in September that Chinese soldiers were present in PoK to provide security to its railways and road projects.
In an official release issued today by the Home Ministry, it was stated that the Consultative Committee of MPs attached to the Ministry reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting was chaired by Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
During the meeting, Shinde said terror-related violence in J and K was at its "lowest".
This has been made possible because of the yearning among the people in the state for peace and the successful measures taken by security forces of the state and Central Government in restricting the infiltration from across the Line of Control (LoC) and various other counter-insurgency actions on all fronts, (MORE)
