GUWAHATI, Aug 30 � Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) general secretary and chief spokesman Atul Bora today alleged that Nagaland has been encroaching upon thousands of hectares of Assam land in the A, B, C and D Sectors of Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district. This is despite the hyperboles of the Assam Government that it would not allow the neighbouring states to encroach upon the State�s land.
Bora, who led a 60-member delegation of the regional party to the D-Sector of the Assam-Nagaland border today, said that Nagaland has already encroached upon around 24,635.83 hectares of land in the D-Sector, while about 18,365.74 hectares of Assam land has been grabbed by this neighbouring state in the A-Sector of the inter-state border, which is known also as the Diphu Reserve Forest.
Further, about 60 per cent of the around 17,152 hectares of land in the Dakhin Nambar Reserve Forest called the B-Sector of the Assam-Nagaland border, is under the encroachment of Nagaland. About 40 per cent land in this sector is under the possession of the people of doubtful nationality, Bora said.
In the Rengma Reserve Forest, which falls under B and C �Sectors of the Assam-Nagaland border, about 40 per cent of its total 13,921.68 hectares is under the encroachment of the people of doubtful nationality and about 30 per cent of its land is under the possession of Nagaland, alleged the AGP chief spokesman.
The CRPF personnel deployed along the Assam-Nagaland border as members of a neutral force, are not behaving in an impartial manner. Rather they are siding with the Naga miscreants, said the AGP spokesman referring to the allegations of the people living on the Assam side of the border.
The Assam Government should ensure safety of the life and property of the people living on the Assam side of the inter-state border as well as encroachment-free inter-state borders. The neutrality of the CRPF should also be ensured, said the AGP spokesman.
The AGP team which included its organising secretary Dr Nripen Barua and central executive committee member Amiya Bora, among others, besides the AGP spokesman, was told by the local people of Mikir Basti Jyotipathar that the Naga miscreants set fire to the dwelling house of Powal Handique on the night of August 27. The miscreants also abducted a woman Mina Teron from the village, which falls in the D-Sector of the Assam-Nagaland border.
Later, the women of the Mikir Basti Jyotipathar rescued Mina Teron. But the CRPF personnel posted in the area paid no heed to the complaint made by the people living in villages on the Assam side, Bora said referring to the allegation of these people.
On Saturday last, the Golaghat Superintendent of Police visited the affected village along with a police party and made the Nagaland authorities assure that they would construct the house of Powal Handique. But this assurance of the Nagaland authorities has made the residents of Mikir Basti suspect that this would provide a new handle to the Nagaland authorities to claim Assam land.
Bora said, referring to this apprehension of the people of this village that the Assam Government should construct the house of Handique under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY).
