{"id":133186,"date":"2026-11-15T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=133186"},"modified":"2026-11-15T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:48:25","slug":"bum-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bum-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Bum La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bum La Pass Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bum La Pass at India-China border point is a culmination of history, geography and the presence of the army that makes you feel deeply emotional.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bum La Pass<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bum La Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass located near<\/span><b> Tawang<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altitude: Approximately 15,200 feet (4,633 metres) above sea level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies on the<\/span><b> India\u2013China border <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is one of the most sensitive yet accessible border points that tourists can visit in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Historical Significance:<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the <\/span><b>1962 India-China War,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Bum La sector witnessed <\/span><b>intense fighting <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between Indian and Chinese forces.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Subedar Joginder Singh, awarded the Param Vir Chakra (posthumously), <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fought against Chinese forces in this sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pass is also associated with the<\/span><b> Dalai Lama&#8217;s escape from Tibet into India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>1959<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an officially agreed <\/span><b>Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) point <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between the Indian Army and China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/bum-la-pass-experiencing-army-life-at-india-china-borders-high-altitude-4217359#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>DH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bum La Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass located near Tawang, in Arunachal Pradesh. Read more about Bum La Pass, Location, Importance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":133201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11504],"class_list":["post-133186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-bum-la-pass","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133202,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133186\/revisions\/133202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}