Arunachal Pradesh has several reasons to rejoice as Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Itanagar on Saturday and spends a couple of hours in the state capital. He will unveil a series of developmental projects that are expected to bring about a lot of positive changes in the strategically located state that shares over 1,000 km of international boundary with China. These include laying the foundation stones for construction of a Greenfield airport at Hollongi near Itanagar, the Sela Tunnel that will reduce distance between Tezpur and Tawang, the permanent campus of Film & Television Institute of India at Jote, apart from inaugurating the upgraded Tezu airport and 50 health and wellness centres across the state. The most important, however, is the inauguration of Arun-prabha, a new television channel under Doordarshan, which will fulfill the long-pending demand of the people of Arunachal Pradesh to have their own TV station. Prime Minister Modi will surely delve at length on how this TV channel – Arun-prabha – would immensely benefit the state, how it will help showcase the rich culture of the state, provide entertainment along with information and education and so on. However, is the Prime Minister aware of the fact that most of the people who will be running the Arun-prabha channel have been only recently dispatched to Itanagar, and that they have been sent on ‘tour’ and not on transfer, and that all of them would sooner or later return to their original places of posting after the PM leaves Itanagar? Doordarshan does not even have a news correspondent in Itanagar, while most of the sanctioned posts of Producers, Production Executives, Production Assistants, Camera-persons and others for its Itanagar Kendra have been lying vacant for long. Is the Prime Minister aware of the fact that more than 50 per cent of the sanctioned posts in the Doordarshan Kendras across the Northeastern Region have been lying vacant for years?