Dimapur, June 15 (EMN): Peren district civil society organisations and landowners said that the inter-district boundary demarcation between Peren district and the then Dimapur, now Chumoukedima, is long overdue since the bifurcation from the undivided Kohima district. In a joint statement addressed to the chief minister of Nagaland, leaders of at least 10 organisations stated that the efforts of state government in ‘setting up Ezung Committee in 2003 and the Cabinet Sub-Committee in 2019 to settle the boundary demarcation lacked sincerity and political will as political manoeuvring overrode facts and realities’. Declaring its “final stand” on the demarcation of inter-district boundary to the government, the civil societies said that the Cabinet Sub-Committee was constituted resolving the long standing boundary dispute between Peren district and Dimapur district (now Chumoukedima) but the state government seems to be unwilling to implement the recommendation of the committee, “which we reluctantly agree to accept as rationalised by the govt. as compromise formula solely for administrative convenience”. Claiming that the government’s unwillingness is evident from its notification on boundary demarcation, which was issued earlier this month, the organisations said they “will not compromise for anything other than the agreed traditional boundary between Zeliang and Chakhro Angami...