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India proposes to physique 74 further onshore ports on the planetary borderline successful the coming years, which see 3 onshore ports on the China borderline and six specified ports on the Pakistan border, according to Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) chairperson Jayant Singh.
The caller onshore ports are expected to fortify commercialized and seamless question of radical with the neighbouring countries.
The onshore ports on the China borderline are projected astatine Namgia successful Himachal Pradesh, Gunji successful Uttarakhand and Nathu La successful Sikkim. India does not person immoderate different onshore larboard operatinoal on the 3,488-km China border.
According to the Ministry of External Affairs, 3 points are designated for conducting borderline commercialized betwixt India and China — Lipulekh Pass successful Uttarakhand (since 1992), Shipki La Pass successful Himachal Pradesh (since 1995), and Nathu La Pass successful Sikkim (since July 2006) but post-COVID pandemic successful 2020, each commercialized is suspended. Trade points and onshore borders are antithetic arsenic the second integrates immigration, customs and question of ample goods vehicles too.
The onshore ports planned on the Pakistan borderline are astatine Teetwal, Adusa and Chakan Da Bagh successful Jammu and Kashmir, Attari railway presumption and Hussainiwala successful Punjab and Munabao railway presumption successful Rajasthan. At present, determination is conscionable 1 operational onshore larboard astatine Attari successful Punjab and commercialized from the 2 Facilitation Centres located astatine Salamabad, Uri, Baramulla territory and Chakkan-da-Bagh, Poonch territory on Line of Control (LoC) successful Jammu and Kashmir remained suspended since 2019 aft the Pulwama panic attack.
According to details presented to Union Home Minister Amit Shah by the LPAI main connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026), astatine present, 15 onshore ports are operational, 11 are nether operation and 23 ports are projected successful signifier I portion 40 others are projected successful Phase II.
Under Phase II, 13 onshore ports are projected on the Nepal border, 12 on the Bangladesh border, 4 on Bhutan and 2 on the Myanmar border, the presumption said.
Civilisational continuity
Mr. Singh said onshore borders should beryllium reimagined and should beryllium seen successful the discourse of civilisational continuity arsenic respective places of spiritual and spiritual value for the Indians prevarication crossed the border.
“Land borders are besides important from the constituent of people-to-people contact. In the caller past, adjacent erstwhile relations with Bangladesh were not precise smooth, determination was hardly immoderate interaction connected the quantum of commercialized done the onshore borders betwixt the 2 countries,” Mr. Singh said.
According to the presentation, successful 2025-26, the full commercialized with neighbouring countries stood astatine ₹2,27,522 crore, retired of which commercialized worthy ₹82,844 crore was conducted done onshore ports. It added that onshore borders person a imaginable for different ₹4,44,167 cr worthy untapped trade.
Together, these projects were expected to make an extended web of borderline introduction points designed to facilitate smoother commercialized flows and amended connectivity with neighbouring countries, Mr. Singh said.
India shares 15,106.7 km of onshore borderline with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar.
