The Indian army has successfully completed its task of laying an irrigation pipeline in the Demchok region of Eastern Ladakh. The project was being conducted under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to link the villages in the region with a hot spring.
- In order to protest the laying of the pipeline, Chinese troops attempted to erect a fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) hut on the border . However, the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) did not allow that. Officials said the Army had fortified the area and prevented Chinese forces from further entering into Indian territory.
- While the three-day face-off ended on , the Army engineers continued the work on laying a pipeline for nearly a kilometre and completed the work on Sunday.
- This is the first time since 2014 when the Chinese Army had come deep inside the Indian territory in Demchok in protest against an ongoing irrigation project.
