Tawang

As the War of 1962 would show, capturing Tawang would give an invading Chinese army easy access to the valley in the south, affirming McMahonтАЩs decision to include Tawang under British jurisdiction.

In 1872, four monastic officials from Tibet arrived in Tawang and supervised a boundary settlement with Major R. Graham, NEFA official, which included the Tawang Tract as part of Tibet.

Addressing a huge gathering of devotees from West Kameng, Tawang and Bhutan, at Balemu, Khandu said that all foothill areas of the state remained underdeveloped due to insurgency.

According to an official, even as the PLA advanced towards Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, they came face-to-face with the 11 Infantry Brigade of the Second Infantry Division of the Indian Army.

Government Higher Secondary School Tawang and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya were recognized as the best performing schools and awarded trophies.

The team is scheduled to reach Guwahati on October 23 before its final journey towards Tawang.

Besides, officials said, three identified snow leopard landscapes — in Ladakh, Gangotri-Nanda Devi, Sikkim-Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh) — will be covered by a management plan.

Taksang village, situated almost 30-km away from Zemithang circle in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

Later DC Tawang under Arunachal Rising campaign felicitated the Best ASHA, ANGANWADI worker and progressive FARMERS with a trophy, cash award and appreciation certificates to the students for Essay Competitions.

There is also a helicopter landing ground in Tawang.

Today a mass cleanliness drive was organized in which Tawang township was divided into 29 sectors.

Expressing gratitude to Gohain and the Railway Ministry, he asserted that the railway track to Tawang will become the pride of not only the Indian Railways but the entire country.

Rhododendrons plantation was done in Tawang in the newly created Rhodo Park on Monday.

Tawang is home to 60+ varying species and sub-species of beautiful Rhodos which means ‘Rose flower’.

The officials informed that NFR is taking up the Bhalukpong-Tenga-Tawang railway line on priority due to its strategic importance.

Thus, in the last half of the 19th century, it was clear that the British treated the Tawang Tract as part of Tibet.