Aizawl, March 19 (NNN): Mizoram’s apex student body, Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) on Thursday demanded the state government to set up a police out post and a forest beat post at Zophai area along the Mizoram-Assam border. The demand was made following the decision of a joint meeting of MZP, NGOs and village council of Bairabi town, according to MZP general secretary Lalnunmawia Pautu. Pautu said the meeting also discussed about the border dispute with Assam and resolved to take concerted effort to resolve it. Earlier, the MZP had accused the state government of Mizoram of negligence to resolve the border dispute.
The organisation president B. Vanlaltana had told a news conference few days ago that the government did not take concrete measures to resolve the long pending border issue. He had also said that the student body on being instructed by the core committee on border issue had collected important documents and submitted the same to the state government. He had then warned that the student organisation would construct a resting shed at Zophai if Assam "continues to violate" the status quo by constructing structures, including a mosque. Meanwhile, officials of state Home department said that the state government is making massive efforts to resolve the border dispute. They also said that the state government had sent a letter to a secretary in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on December 15 last year urging the ministry to review the Mizoram-Assam boundary on the basis of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation of 1873 and the Inner Line of the Lushai Hills Notification, 1993.
The state government also collected important documents related to borders, they added.
