Overview
- The Centre, in consultation with the Union Territory administration of Ladakh, formally identified 28 peaks, passes, glaciers, rivers, lakes and land areas for inclusion on the Survey of India’s Ladakh map on Friday.
- The list names strategic friction points such as Gogra and Hot Spring and includes features shown on or near the Line of Actual Control, including some sites in Aksai Chin.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs worked with the Ladakh administration and the Survey of India to standardise the names and the updated high‑resolution map was published on the Survey of India website for public use.
- Officials say the move creates a single official reference for maps and records and serves as a signalling measure to counter repeated Chinese efforts to assign Mandarin names to locations India claims.
- The action follows the Centre’s August naming of 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh and comes against a longer pattern of Chinese renaming since 2017, with implications for patrols, local awareness and diplomatic border management.