The Dalai Lama's successful visit to Arunachal Pradesh and his statement that the state was a part and parcel of India and not a disputed territory has vindicated India's stand on the issue, Congress Lok Sabha member Takam Sanjoy said today.

"The statement of the Dalai Lama that Arunachal including Tawang is part and parcel of India vindicates our position," Sanjoy, who represents Arunachal (West) which includes Tawang, told a press conference here.

Asked about Centre's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Tawang, home to a 300-year-old Buddhist monastery and the birthplace of the 6th Dalai Lama, ignoring strong opposition from China, Sanjoy said "There is a perceptible change in the Centre's attitude".

"Prime minister Manmohan Singh flew into Arunachal within a week of his visit to China last year and announced a huge Rs 24,000 crore package and visited the state again this year and allowed the Dalai Lama to visit Tawang despite objections from China."

Sanjoy said he did not agree with the recent views expressed by the External Affairs ministry that finding a solution to the border dispute between China and India was a complex one.

"I had told foreign secretary Nirupama Rao during the meeting of the Standing Committee not to be confused by statements from China," Sanjoy said.

"I don't know about the border in other states, but in Arunachal it is well defined," he said demanding that the state government be be taken into confidence in negotiations for resolving border disputes.

Stating that the Centre was slow in building infrastructure along the Sino-India border in Arunachal Pradesh, he said "while the Chinese have constructed highways on their side of border, we don't even have a mule track."

Sanjoy, who is leaving for Rome to attend the 2-day 'World Parliament Convention' from November 18 on the status of Tibet to be inaugurated by the Dalai Lama, regretted that people in the country were unaware about his state.

"We are of Mongoloid stock. Whenever we go to big cities we are taken for Japanese, Nepalese or Chinese. While Arunachalee students can tell the locations of all Indian cities and towns on a map, their counterparts in the mainland seldom know where Arunachal is.

"If this is allowed to continue it is not healthy," he said suggesting that 5 to 10 per cent space in the CBSC syllabus should be devoted to the culture, political status and natural beauty of north eastern states.