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India officially updated the Survey of India map to formally identify and mark 27 key locations and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh with their standard Indian names.
- It was a move that comes amid repeated attempts by China to rename places in the border state.
- These are including land, passes, a lake and a monument.
- It also includes Long Ju located along the Line of Actual Control.
- It was one of the earliest flashpoints between India and China in 1959 when Chinese forces entered the area.
- The list also includes Bisa village, a strategically important high-altitude mountain pass in the region, Dzo La, Riza La, and Pukur La.
- One of the most strategically important high-altitude passes, Thag La, where one of the opening battles between Indian and Chinese forces took place in 1962, has also been formally identified on the official map.
- Jairampur, an important logistics hub in the Changlang district, is known as the gateway to the eastern border region supporting movements of security forces towards eastern Arunachal and the Myanmar frontier.
- India has repeatedly described the Chinese renaming exercise as "vain and preposterous".
- And India asserted that it will not change the "undeniable" reality that Arunachal Pradesh "was, is, and will" remain an integral part of India.
Reference
The Hindu | India’s move of formally naming 27 places
