Siachen glacier

Why in news

• Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment to flag-off ‘Operation Blue Freedom – Land World Record at Siachen Glacier’.

More about the News:

• People with disabilities from India will undertake an expedition till Siachen Glacier to create a new World Record for the largest team of people with disabilities to reach the world’s highest battlefield (Divyanjan Siachen Glacier expedition).
• The successful execution of this pioneering expedition, ‘Operation Blue Freedom’, shall firmly place India on the global stage as a leader in empowering Divyangjanand set a benchmark for other nations to emulate

Siachen Glacier:

• The Siachen Glacier is the world's highest battlefield
• It is the world’s second-longest glacier in non-polar areas
• Siachen lies in the Eastern Karakoram Range of the Himalayas.
• It lies to the northeast of Point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends.
• The glacier covers 76 km from its head at Indira Col on the China-India border to its terminus, with its altitude falling from 5,753m to 3,620m above sea level.
• The Siachen Glacier is bordered to the north by the great drainage divide, a divide separating the Indian Subcontinent and the Eurasian Plate in the Karakoram region
• Although India administers the entire glacier region as part of the Union Territory of Ladakh, Pakistan also claims the region and controls the area to the glacier’s west.
• The entire Siachen Glacier, with all major passes, is currently under the administration of India since 1984 (after Operation Meghdoot).
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PRELIMS QUESTION

Siachen Glacier is situated in which of the following Himalayan Ranges?

(a)Zaskar Range

(b)Hindu Kush Range

(c)Karakoram Range

(d)Langtang Range

Answer