The alleged abduction of five youths by Chinese troops on Friday from Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district, one of the affected districts in the 1962 Indo-China war, has also turned the spotlight firmly on the “underdeveloped” infrastructure in the border area.
Leading state organisations, while asking the Centre and the state government to secure the safe and early release of the youths who might have wandered into Chinese territory on a hunting trip on “their ancestral land”, drew attention to the “step-motherly treatment” being meted out to the strategic border district.
The whereabouts of the youths are not yet known.
Tagin Cultural Society secretary general Lardik Kare told The Telegraph that the district is so underdeveloped that people are leaving the border areas and shifting to the district headquarters Daporijo or other urban areas.
