PrimeMinister Narendra Modi held meeting with the three service chiefs, NationalSecurity Advisor Ajit Doval and the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.
Earlier,in a separate meeting, PM met with the foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringlato discuss China issue. Sources said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had metthree service chiefs first and briefed them.
Therush of meetings comes at a time when Chinese and Indian troops have beenskirmishing in Sikkim and Ladakh.
Inseveral disputed areas along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh,Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in a conflicted situation, warningthat the dispute could become the biggest military face-off after the Doklamepisode in 2017.
Indiahas further increased its strength in Pangong Tso and Galwan Valley, topmilitary sources said. Pangong Tso and Galwan Valley are the two contentiousareas where the Chinese army is seen to be deploying around 2,000 to 2,500troops besides gradually enhancing temporary infrastructure.
TheChinese troops have particularly increased its presence in the Galwan Valley,building around 100 tents in the last two weeks and bringing in heavy equipmentfor the development of bunkers.
BothIndia and China have brought in more troops in critical locations like Demchok,Daulat Beg Oldie and areas around Galwan river as well as Pangong Tso lake inLadakh.
Sixrounds of talks between Indian and Chinese troops since the first borderskirmish on May 5 remained unsettled and Beijing warned of "necessarycounter-measures".
Thetroops of India and China were engaged in a 73-day stand-off in Doklamtri-junction (India, China, Bhutan) in 2017 which even triggered fears of a warbetween the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
TheIndia-China border dispute covers the 3,488-km-long LAC. China claims ArunachalPradesh as part of southern Tibet while India opposes it.
Chinahas been critical of India's reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir and hasespecially criticised New Delhi for making Ladakh a union territory. Chinaattempts to claim various parts of Ladakh.
Theyalso object the construction of a road in the Galwan river area which is wellwithin Indian territory.
PMModi and Xi Jinping held an informal summit in Mamallapuram near Chennai inOctober last year with a focus on further expanding bilateral ties.
