 In 1420-21, he started building and repairing forts and establishing military outposts to strengthen state from attacks.He built the forts of Dahod on the Malwa frontier and of Jitpur in Lunawada.In 1421 he repaired the fort in the town of Kahreth, otherwise called Meimun in Lunavaḍa, which had been built by Ulugh Khan Sanjar in the reign of Sultan Ala-ud-din Khalji and changed the name to Sultanpur.