Vijaynagar (also known as Vijay Nagar and Vijoynagar) is the most remote town and

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headquarters in the Changlang district,

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, India. According to the 2011 census, Vijaynagar has a population of 4,438.

Location

Vijaynagar is from the nearest navigable road in India located at

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by foot. It is bordered to the south and east by

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, and to the north by a thick forest of the

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. Nearby Indian cities are

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. Putao is the nearest city in

History

In a 1961-1962 expedition led by the

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, Maj. Gen A.S Gauraya found an uninhabited zone of Indian territory between the three-sided border of Burma (

) and named the region Vijaynagar in honour of his son "Vijay." After the settlement process was initiated by the

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(now known as

), two hundred families of Assam Rifles soldiers (95% of whom are

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s) settled there. Today, Vijaynagar is a cluster of 12 villages on the border with Myanmar: Ramnagar, Chididi, Majgoan, Two-hut, Budhamandir, Phaparbari, Daragoan, Gehrigaon, Topi-Hill, Preeti Nagar, (Assam Rifle settlers) Hazolo, and Dawadi (Yobin inhabitants).

Transportation

Vijaynagar can only be reached on foot, or by air via the Vijaynagar Airport (also called the Vijaynagar

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). This is the 8th Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh upgraded by the

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(IAF) and

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(IA) in September 2019 to allow the landing of fighter jets and large transport planes. The upgrade involved building local link roads among villages around Vijaynagar. A road connection to nearby

, costing ₹225 crores, was dedicated in February 2013 but has been delayed by environmental activists concerned about the National Park. The issue was resolved by adding a prefabricated bridge to protect park life and facilitate monitoring by the Forests Department. In September 2019, the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh ordered new construction by first completing the central bridge road, already being built in

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.Expedite Miao-Vijaynagar road: Arunachal Governor
Nenow.in, 2 September 2019. There are plans to extend this road to

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in Myanmar under the Look East policy, thus connecting it to both India's and Myanmar's national highway networks. Vijaynagar would be the eastern terminus of the Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway, a proposed road following the

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to Mago and

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in the west. A map of the proposed route can be see
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References

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Location

History

Transportation

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