The Golaghat district has borne the brunt of the violence, accounting for 131 deaths in nine clashes during 1977-2014. The Sivasagar district accounted for the maximum number of incidents of violence – 96 (from March 1972 to June 2014) – resulting in 19 deaths.
The list of the dead includes 31 Assam Police personnel and three CISF personnel.
Naga miscreants and NSCM militants were found to be involved in most of these violent incidents. The Nagaland government has set up offices, police stations, hospitals, markets, etc, in large numbers in the illegally-occupied land inside Assam.
This was revealed by Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on behalf of the Border Areas Development Minister, in reply to a question by Phani Bhushan Choudhury (AGP).
The Nagaland government has carried out a lot of infrastructure development in areas inside Assam that it has encroached. These include school buildings, health centres, PWD roads, churches, police battalion posts, petrol pumps, water supply, power supply (Jorhat district); check gate, weekly market, police station, petrol pump, office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, forest office, bank, post office, power office, police colony, rest house, etc, (Sivasagar district); and the Merapani township, forest office, border magistrate office, transport office, council office, government primary school, foothills, office of the Additional Deputy Commissioner, health centre, government high school, government ME school, BDO office, bank, police station, farm, saw mill, church, private school, market, etc (Golaghat district).
Hussain said that of the total 78 inter-State border outposts (BOPs) in the State, 54 are located in the Assam-Nagaland border. There is a move to set up five more BOPs in the border areas of Sivasagar district.
Source: Assam Tribune
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