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ARMY UNDERTAKES MAJOR INFRA DRIVE ALONG LAC IN ARUNACHAL

Dinakar Peri
DINJAN (ASSAM) September 07, 2022 22:49 IST
Updated: September 08, 2022 05:27 IST
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DINJAN (ASSAM) September 07, 2022 22:49 IST
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After significantly upgrading firepower and infrastructure along the Line of
Actual Control (LAC) in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh, the Army is on a
major drive for capability and infrastructure development in the rest of
Arunachal Pradesh.

This includes road, bridges, tunnels, habitat and storage facilities, aviation
facilities and upgrade of communications and surveillance, especially in the
Upper Dibang Valley region, according to multiple Army officials.


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A capability development matrix was being employed and road development,
construction of habitat and aviation facilities were under way, Major General
M.S. Bains, General Officer Commanding of the Army’s 2 Mountain Division,
headquartered at Dinjan, told a group of journalists. We are in the process of
linking various valleys, he said.

“We have gone for clear timelines for capability development based on a very
clear perspective plan for future. Our overall combat readiness in the region is
of a very high order,” Maj. Gen. Bains added.


FIVE VERTICALS

Another official, who did not wish to be identified, explained that the
capability and infrastructure development in the region was being undertaken
under five verticals — habitat, aviation, road infrastructure, operational
logistics and security infrastructure.


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Of this, the strategic roads and border roads were being constructed by Central
government agencies and Border Roads Organisation, while the Army was building
the last mile tracks to connect these roads to the forwards posts on the Line of
Actual Control.

A third official noted that apart from construction of roads, aviation
facilities were being created along them which was also benefiting the civil
population.

India has two road axis in the forested area in Lohit and Siang; now, efforts
were underway to improve infrastructure across the board. Engineering Task
Forces of various formations of the Army were being employed to speed up work,
the second official cited above said while adding that the main working season
was restricted to six months.

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The Area of Responsibility of 2 Division covers the districts of upper Dibang,
lower Dibang, Namsai, Lohit and Anjaw in Arunachal Pradesh. While Tawang and
Kameng area is under the Army’s 4 Corps headquartered at Tezpur, RALP is under
the 3 Corps based at Dimapur.


MAJOR ORIENTATION

Since the May 2020 standoff with China in Eastern Ladakh, which is still under
way, the Army has carried a major reorientation towards the LAC under which
several formations facing the Western front were retasked to the LAC, in the
backdrop of heightened Chinese activity across the LAC. Of the 3,488-km long
LAC, 1,346 km falls in the Eastern sector.

Further, several Army units earlier tasked with CI duties have been retasked to
the LAC while Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force administratively under the Home
Ministry, has been given the responsibility of dealing with insurgency. Roughly,
two division strength of troops have been retasked from CI duties to border
guarding role.

Army’s 73 Brigade headquartered at Laipuli near Dibrugarh town in Assam is the
only unit still with a CI mandate in the Eastern sector. Its CI mandate covers
four districts of Assam in addition to the conventional role.

Talking of the geography of RALP, one of the officials above said it was quite a
challenging task to carry out patrols. Long range patrols were carried out once
or twice a month and vary from 14 days to a month.


4G NETWORK

Addressing a long-pending demand from the local population along the LAC,
setting up of mobile towers for 4G communications is under way under the Unified
Service Obligation Fund, under which corporates can provide telecom services in
rural and remote areas under the CSR obligations.

Under this, mobile towers are being set up in<SU>strategically sensitive areas
such as Kibithu, Walong and Hayuliang. Giving an overview, another official
said<SU>135 mobile towers would be coming up within the 2 Division area for
which Recce of the locations had already been carried out by civil agencies and
the Phase-I covering Lohit and Debang regions should be completed by December
this year.

China has long installed telecom network very close to the LAC and has upgraded
them to 5G. In it quite common for mobile phones to pick up Chinese networks
when Indians travel close to the LAC.

In Tawang sector, there has been significant push to expand infrastructure as
also deployment offensive firepower which enables faster troops reorientation
which is a shortfall in the RALP area, as reported by The Hindu earlier. In line
with its infra and habitat build-up along the LAC, China has been moving troops
closer to the LAC in RALP in addition to roads, there is construction of
tunnels, habitat and related facilities to support the troops.

Commenting on the situation in Asaphila area of RALP, which sees regular Chinese
transgressions, last October, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande then the Eastern Army
Commander had said in Tenga, “We have observed build-up by Chine close to LAC
essentially in terms of habitat and that has led to correspondingly more number
of troops that are located there.”




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