Giving evidence to the Education Committee on 27 July, Tim Byles, from Partnerships for Schools, said the list of schools affected by the decision to cancel BSF should have been double-checked with local authorities by the Department for Education.

BBC: Schools list 'should have been checked'

He argued that Labour's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme was "massively flawed" and over-bureaucratic.

BBC: Gove confirms cuts to school building projects

Councils have also been affected by the government's decision to scrap the multi-billion pound Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project, which led to the cancellation of hundreds of schemes.

BBC: Education & Family

But on Wednesday, both the BSF and the BDR troops started digging in and calling in reinforcement - bringing back memories of a fierce border clash between the two sides two years ago.

BBC: Human cost of Dhaka-Delhi row