NEW DELHI - It was in 1920 that India, then under British rule, signed the Svalbard Treaty, beginning its formal engagement with the Arctic.
Since then, India has made gradual progress - it launched its first expedition to the Arctic in 2007 and set up a research base the following year in Ny-Alesund, a Norwegian town on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean.
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