A young doctor as DC sizes up Changlang

CHANGLANG has a size problem. It is one of the biggest districts in Arunachal Pradesh and the second most populous too. But its people live in such small clusters of villages, far apart from each other, that taking government services to them can become an intricate challenge.

The district has an area of 4,662 sq. km, which is roughly three times the size of Delhi. It has a population of around 200,000, which is big by Arunachal’s standards, but a tiny number for the huge area of the district.

Being a lot in the plains, the. . .

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