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, �
Following the firing incident in Nagaland's Mon district, several students' unions and political parties, among others, have demanded the immediate repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the Northeastern region.
Nagaland forms panel on listing indigenous inhabitants
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The NRC-like exercise seeks to filter out the non-original residents of the State
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The NRC-like exercise seeks to filter out the non-original residents of the State The Nagaland government has decided to form a joint consultative committee (JCC) involving all traditional tribal bodies and, civil society organisations for taking an exercise to register the State’s indigenous inhabitants.
The decision was taken at a meeting the government had organised on Friday with leaders of the community-based and social organisations as well as political parties in State capital Kohima on the issue of preparing the Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN).