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Incomplete map of India removed from government website
Friday April 22, 2011 06:20:59 PM,
IANS
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Government website has incomplete map of India
A government website, in one of its
pages mapping the country's police wireless communication network,
shows a distorted map of India, cutting off parts of Jammu and
Kashmir that New Delhi claims are under the illegal occupation of
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New Delhi:
The authorities have removed a controversial map of India from a
government website that didn't have parts of Jammu and Kashmir
which New Delhi claims are under the illegal occupation of
Pakistan and China.
The map on the website of the Directorate of Coordination Police
Wireless -- www.dcpw.nic.in -- was removed after IANS first broke
the story Wednesday pointing out that the northern areas of
Kashmir, also called Gilgit-Baltistan, and Aksai Chin were not
included in the map.
The website used the image in one of its pages to map the
country's police wireless communication network.
The map could have been the copy of the CIA India Map that had
earlier stirred a similar controversy over Indian territory.
Gilgit-Baltistan was militarily occupied by Pakistan in 1948 and
China gained control of Aksai Chin, towards east of Ladakh, in the
1962 war.
The department, under the ministry of home affairs, is responsible
for establishing the police telecommunication network in the
country and also maintaining coordination.
It has been entrusted with the responsibility of setting up an
integrated police wireless network in the country, called POLNET,
to create a direct link between all police stations for online
crime and criminal information systems.
It also advises the ministry on all telecommunication matters. The
department has created a network of 31 inter-state police wireless
stations.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded immediate
correction of the faulty map and punishment for the officer
responsible for the distortion.
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