Question : DISPUTE OVER MCMOHAN LINE



(a) whether the McMohan Line demarcate the border between India and China;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether there is any dispute over the McMohan Line at some places; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE)

(a)-(d) The India-China boundary in the Eastern Sector has been established by the Indo-Tibetan Agreement of March 1914. This Agreement was signed by Sir Henry McMahon, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department and Lonchen Shatra, Tibetan Plenipotentiary. China illegally claims 90,000 square kilometres of Indian territory in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Sector.