New Delhi, Sep 16 - The Indian Army is replenishing its forward posts along the frontier with China in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, officials said Wednesday, adding this was an annual exercise.

'This is an annual exercise, named Operation Alert, that we conduct every year to replenish our forward posts along our borders with China before the winter and nothing more should be read into it,' a senior Indian Army officer told IANS.

'It has nothing to do with the reports of border skirmishes, which, in any case, the government has officially denied,' the officer added.

'There has been no mobilization beyond the routine activities that we normally carry on at this time of the year,' the officer said.

In the past months, there have been several reports of Chinese troops intruding into Indian territory in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir creating anxiety about Beijing's aggressive designs.