Government site has distorted map of India (Lead) (With Images)
April 20th, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) 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 Pakistan and China.
The map on the website of the Directorate of Coordination Police Wireless — www.dcpw.nic.in — could be the copy of the CIA India Map that had earlier stirred a controversy over Indian territory.
The northern areas of Kashmir, also called Gilgit-Baltistan, and Aksai Chin are not included in the map distorting what the government of India claims to be Jammu and Kashmir as was in 1947.
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.
The BJP said “the bloomer is really a serious issue”.
“The officer responsible for this must be made accountable. This is unacceptable. The department should apologise and there should be punishment (for the officer responsible),” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told IANS.
He lamented that the map was not corrected till Wednesday evening.
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