Now tension on Assam-Nagaland border after ‘anti-encroachment’ stir

Kohima, Nov 17 : Different organisations, led by the Karbi Students Association (KSA), on Tuesday began an indefinite economic blockade on the highway to Nagaland in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district over “encroachments” by the neighbouring state.
Karbi Anglong Superintendent of Police Debojit Deuri said that the agitators are holding demonstrations in three places along the Assam-Nagaland inter-state border but movement of all kinds of vehicles is normal and no untoward incident has been reported yet.
“Deputy Commissioners of bordering districts of both Assam and Nagaland held fruitful meetings on Tuesday and it was expected that the agitations would be called off soon,” Deuri told IANS over phone.
The latest inter-state border row in the northeast states comes on the heels of over a month-long serious dispute, including a highway blockade, between Assam and Mizoram and a few weeks long border trouble between Tripura and Mizoram.
Another police official of Karbi Anglong district said that many agitators belonging to several organisations led by KSA blocked National Highway 39, a vital highway for Nagaland.
The KSA and the other organisations, including the United Karbi Anglong Women Association, are alleged that the Nagaland authorities have issued land right certificates to people in areas falling in the Daldali forest reserve under the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) in Assam.