The cost of deployment and re-deployment (or withdrawal) of troops over the last one year could match the cost of fighting the Kargil conflict, according to the preliminary estimates of the Army. The Kargil conflict cost the country Rs 7,000 crore.
At the end of the deployment, and with the return of troops to original peacetime locations, Rs 7,000 crore is the figure defence ministry sources are estimating as the cost of