India is fully re-activating an advanced landing ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh located at Vijaynagar at the tri-junction of the India, Myanmar and China border. Indian Air Force, IAF, Spokesperson told AIR in New Delhi that the upgraded Vijayanagar ALG in the Changlang district of Arunachal, is being inaugurated on Friday, with the landing of an AN-32 medium-lift aircraft.

AIR correspondent reports, The Defence Minister Mr. AK Antony had recently said that after the negligence in the past, India is now taking corrective action as part of a conscious strategy to strengthen military infrastructure, strike capabilities and operational logistics in the eastern sector.

Over the last couple of years India has activated its eastern Ladakh ALGs like Nyoma, Daulat Beg Oldi and Fukche. Nyoma, located just 23-km from the Line of Actual Control with China at an altitude of 13,300-feet in Ladakh is to be converted into a full-fledged airbase with a 12,000-feet runway capable of handling fighters as well as transport aircraft. This will ensure India got both defensive and offensive options at the ALG.

In the country's north-east, the IAF is also upgrading other eastern sector ALGs like Pasighat, Mechuka, Walong, Tuting and Ziro as well as several helipads in Arunachal. Strengthening measures also include the raising of a new mountain strike corps with 45,000 troops over and above two new mountain infantry divisions, with 1,260 officers and 35,011 soldiers in Nagaland and Assam.

The region has also seen deployment of state-of-the art Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, spy drones, helicopters and missile squadrons.