Situation tenseat Ranga Reserve Forest of Lakhimpur in Assam-Arunachal border

LAKHIMPUR: Taking advantage of the lackadaisical attitude on the part of the Government of Assam and Lakhimpur district administration, havoc created by aggressive people from Arunachal Pradesh continued in the Ranga Reserve Forest located in Assam-Arunachal border area belonging to Lakhimpur district. Even the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked between Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal counterpart Pema Khandu, in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, cannot resist the aggressive attitude of the Arunachali people with regard to encroaching upon the Assam land under Ranga Reserve Forest under Naoboicha Revenue Circle of the district. Rather, they have become more aggressive in this connection after the signing of the MoU.

As part of such aggression, a section of people from the neighbouring State on Saturday pulled down a total of 400 concrete posts in the said reserve forest. These posts were installed at Methon Chapori of the Ranga Reserve Forest to build fencing in order to protect a plantation project implemented under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). Even the administrative personnel, arriving at the place, commanded the Assam forest officials to stop working there. As a result of it, the implementation of the project ceased. The aggressive people claimed the land, which is in the map of Assam, to be of Arunachal Pradesh. On the contrary, Lakhimpur district administration and Government of Assam has maintained silence miraculously as a reply to the aggression of the Arunachal Pradesh.

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