Brief History

• Project Udayak was raised on 01 Jun 1990 at Doomdooma, Assam as part of the restructuring undertaken to focus on the development on the far-eastern area of the country. Its two task forces, 48 BRTF and 752 BRTF were carved out of Projects Vartak and Sewak respectively, to form the two executive arms of the Project.

• The Project AOR comprises the Eastern-most part of the country covering the districts of Dibang Valley, Lohit, Anjaw, Changlang, Tirap and Longding Districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The Project was aptly named 'Udayak', meaning the Rising Sun as the first rays of the rising sun in the country fall in the AOR of the project.

• Since its raising, Project Udayak has transformed the road connectivity of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh with development of roads and bridges. A number of strategic and technologically challenging bridges such as the 763.50 m Passighat Bridge over River Siang, 410 m Brahmakund Bridge over River Lohit, 637.60 m Noadhing Bridge and 426.60 m Diffo bridge are engineering marvels which have reduced travel time between Upper Assam and Eastern Arunachal Pradesh dramatically. In addition to roads and bridges, other significant works carried out by the project include construction of accommodation for Assam Rifles, SB & SSB, an 80-bedded hospital at Pullong and the resurfacing of Dibrugarh Airfield.

• Having completed the initial connectivity to the far flung areas of the region, the Project is now undertaking construction of roads in the forward-most portions to provide last mile connectivity, right up to the LAC.