Dimapur, April 1 (EMN): The Pangsha Village Council, under Tuensang district, has written to the chief minister of Nagaland objecting to the proposed work for a joint survey along the Indo-Myanmar border understood to be for the purpose of setting up a fence. The council has demanded that the survey team of both the countries be immediately withdrawn from the spot.
The council issued a copy of letter addressed to the chief minister of Nagaland on Saturday. The
The letter stated: “...We, the Pangsha range citizen of India express our utter dismay to the Union of India on having learnt that the survey team of India and Myanmar has come to our land to conduct survey work as per the existing imaginary line which has bifurcated our land (the only source of our living) and parted to foreign country without the Knowledge of the indigenous Inhabitants In any form whatsoever.” The letter alleged that the “BP146” was “installed erroneously” within their land where 3, 500 acres of cultivable land had been “compromised to the foreign country for no wrong of the native land owners.”
The council has demanded that “BP146” should be immediately removed and that the traditional boundary of Pangsha (India) and Kingphu/Woilan, Ponyu (Myanmar) village must be ‘followed’; realign the existing boundary ‘as per the tradition and boundary.’
“On account of the above mention demands, it is our sincere appeal that the survey team of both the countries should be immediately withdrawn from the spot and that no activities in any form by the concerned Governments should be taken up until and unless rectification is made,” the letter stated.
The chief minister is appealed to initiate steps urgently ‘so as to maintain peaceful atmosphere between the two nations in the border area.’
