Kamal Ghorui
Dimapur: Nagaland deputy CM Y Patton, who is also minister in charge of border affairs, told the Nagaland assembly on Thursday that the state govt is examining the matter of setting up nine new police outposts in border villages along the Assam-Nagaland border.Responding to a question by MLA Achumbemo Kikon on the concluding day of the eighth session of the 14th Nagaland assembly in Kohima, Patton said Nagaland had withdrawn all police outposts from the border areas following the 1972 Interim Agreement, whereas Assam has since established 63 permanent police outposts along the Assam-Nagaland border.Kikon also raised the issue of the current status of the Tchunjanphen and Lio-Longchym/Longayim police outposts on the border. He appealed for the deployment of additional police personnel.Responding to the query, Patton informed the House a temporary police outpost has been set up in the area now, while a proposal to establish a permanent outpost is under process and will be taken up at the earliest.
