Capt Kalpana Kundu, a young Medical Officer of the Indian Army undertook an arduous high altitude Patrol in the mighty Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh on 20 June 2019 .
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Capt Kalpana Kundu, a young Medical Officer of the Indian Army undertook an arduous high altitude Patrol in the mighty Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh on 20 June 2019 . In this rare feat she volunteered and accompanied an important patrol in an inhospitable terrain to provide medical cover to her brethren deployed along the Line of Actual Control. This was in the true tradition of Indian Army where officers lead from the front.
Arunachal Pradesh is the largest of the North-Eastern states of India, spread over an area of 83,743 km2 (32,333 sq mi). The state shares an international border, 160 km long with Bhutan in the west while a 1,030 km long border separates the state from China in the north. A 440 km long border exists between Arunachal Pradesh and Burma in the east.
