AIZAWL, April 17: The Centre has urged civil society organisations in Mizoram to support its decision to fence the India-Myanmar border, a leader of the Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA) claimed on Wednesday.
Leaders of five organisations, including the YMA and the apex students’ outfit Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), met Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan in New Delhi on Tuesday. During the meeting, they discussed the Centre’s move to fence the international border and withdraw the Free Movement Regime (FMR), the CYMA leader said.
CYMA general secretary Malsawmliana said that during the meeting, the leaders urged the Centre to consider and give importance to the sentiments of the Mizo people.
Mohan, on his part, requested the organisations not to oppose the initiative but to support the Centre’s decision, Malsawmliana said.
The Union Home Secretary also informed the delegation that the Centre will provide financial aid through the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to help combat the growing menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse in Mizoram, he added.
Several organisations in the Northeast have voiced opposition to the Centre’s decision to fence the border, citing concerns that it would sever longstanding ethnic and cultural ties between cross-border communities.
