EMN
Dimapur, December 12
Members of the Border Peace Coordination Committee (Assam-Nagaland) have been touring the sensitive settlement areas along the Assam-Nagaland border. Besides, surveying the situation in the stated regions, the organization, a group consisting both Assamese leaders and Naga leaders, have been interacting with villagers and community leaderships.
The north eastern states of Assam and Nagaland are currently in dispute over the border. Over the years, violent clashes have broken out between villages that populate either sides of the two state’s common border.
The committee visited Borholla-Madhapur area bordering with Changpang in Wokha district of Nagaland as part of peaceful efforts to spread the message of neighborly relations and peace between the communities living along the sensitive border areas.
The theme of the tour was “neighborhood to brotherhood,” according to a press release issued by the Border Peace Coordination Committee on Friday, December 12. On December 10, a team of leaders representing the Border Peace Coordination Committee interacted with organizers and team members of an ongoing friendly volleyball competition among communities living along the border.
Dubbed the ‘Friendly Volleyball Tournament,’ the sports competition was between players from Titabor in Assam and Changpang revenue circle under Wokha district in Nagaland. The tournament commenced from December 8 and culminated on December 11 at Madhapur.
A total of five male teams and one women’s team represented Nagaland while seven male teams and two women’s teams represented Assam in the volleyball competition. All the teams hailed from the bordering villages lined along the Assam-Nagaland border.
In a related event, the visiting team also nominated a five-member panel of conveners from the areas that represented in the tournament. The new conveners are Hekovi Aye (Amboto village) and Chenrio Lotha (Tssori new village) from Nagaland; Paban Gogoi (Medeluajan), Prakash Saikia (Madhapur) and Dipankar Sangmai (Phulbari) from Assam. They have been entrusted to work and act as liaison leaders amongst the people of their respective areas. Also, they have been entrusted to set up sub-committees of Border Peace Coordination Committee for effective peace-making efforts in the area.
The visiting committee was led by the organization’s president BP Bora and vice president Imsu Jamir. The team comprised executive members Amal Mili, Hiren Gogoi, Jayanta Barua, Thanu Gogoi, Subong Ao, N. Likok Pongen, Sonaram Sonowal and Manoj Choudhury.
