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Siliguri Corridor
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- 1India fortifying Siliguri Corridor with multi-layered defences●HUGE: India is FORTIFYING the 22-km-wide Siliguri Corridor (Chicken’s Neck) with a MULTI-LAYERED DEFENCE SHIELD – ₹530+
India is strengthening the Siliguri Corridor, the narrow 22-km strip in West Bengal known as the Chicken's Neck that connects the northeast to the rest of the country, under a defence project worth over ₹530 crore. Plans reportedly include underground command hubs, air defence and long-range missile sites, bomb shelters, resilient underground rail capacity and expressway corridors. The move highlights the strategic sensitivity of the corridor, which borders Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and China's Chumbi Valley nearby.