New Delhi: Union home minister Rajnath Singh has said that the MHA is considering the proposal to build 50 more border outposts at the India-China Border.

The minister said work is going on at a fast pace on 25 roads inArunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to connect the border outposts.

"Arrangements are being made to make sure that every ITBP jawan/officer knows basic Mandarin language at training level so that they don't face language issues at the border during face-offs with PLA," he said.

He also said a model border post is being constructed at Ladakh and if it is successful, the same model will be implemented at all BoPs.

The ministry of home affairs has made Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) the nodal force for use of G-SAT communication and surveillance satellites for monitoring Indian borders from the sky.

The approval of providing a dedicated satellite bandwidth to border security forces will allow BSF, which guards borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, SSB - which guards Indo-Nepal border and ITBP itself, which guards border with China, to have better communication network even at high altitude or remote border outposts and also scan suspected activities at the border through the satellite.

Speaking at ITBP raising day on Tuesday, DG R K Pachnanda said, "We are thankful to MHA for making ITBP the nodal agency for GSAT Centre".

Recent standoff with China at Doklam had prompted the government to consider giving satellite bandwidth to security forces at the border for real time monitoring.

Several rounds of meetings had taken place in MHA along with BSF, ITBP, SSB and Isro officials, during which it was discussed whether a single satellite would be enough to monitor activities on the borders or if each force needed to be provided a dedicated satellite bandwidth.

It was also felt that command, control, communication, surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance abilities of border security forces -- the first line of border defence -- needed to be made impregnable.