India boosts investment along disputed border with China

India has launched an investment drive targeting villages and infrastructure along its disputed northern border with China, in a bid to strengthen its presence on the ground amid heightened tensions between the world’s two most populous countries.

Amit Shah, India’s home affairs minister and a top deputy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, travelled on Monday to Arunachal Pradesh, a sparsely populated north-eastern territory, to inaugurate the scheme, which aims to boost living conditions and employment prospects in five states and territories that border China.