The Centre has written to Wikipedia asking it to remove a wrong map of India that shows Aksai Chin as part of China, according to several r...
The Centre has written to Wikipedia asking it to remove a wrong map of India that shows Aksai Chin as part of China, according to several reports.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ajay Sawhney, issued the order to the online encyclopedia on November 27, the Hindustan Times reported.
The government has invoked Section 69A of the Information Technology Act that empowers the Centre to block public access to any information online, according to PTI.
The matter came to light when a Twitter user pointed out that a map on a Wikipedia page about India-Bhutan ties had incorrectly depicted Indian territory. The user shared a screenshot of the map, which shows the region of Aksai Chin in China.
Both India and China claim the Aksai Chin plateau, part of the western sector of the frontier region. India considers it part of the Union Territory of Ladakh, which was carved out of the state of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 last year. China considers the plateau a part of its Xinjiang province and Tibet.
However, the map on the Wikipedia page shared by the user seemed to be an older version, given that the Survey of India had last year redrawn the map of India...
