Nagaland governor highlights progress on Naga political issue and entrepreneurship initiatives
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Unfurling the national flag at the Republic Day’s main function at the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Plaza, the Governor said on November 21, 2024, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio accompanied by his cabinet colleagues met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and apprised him of the desire of the people for an early solution of the Naga political issue.
The Governor informed the gathering that the state government submitted its comments on the third draft of the Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) in respect of the proposed Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority, to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Substantial progress has been made on the matter and it is hoped that the remaining concerns of the Eastern Nagaland Peoples' Organisation (ENPO) are addressed in the same spirit of brotherhood, he said.
Since 2010, the ENPO has been demanding a separate ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory’ or separate state comprising six eastern Nagaland districts — Kiphire, Longleng, Mon, Noklak, Shamator, and Tuensang, inhabited by seven backward tribes — Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Tikhir, Sangtam, and Yimkhiung.
Ganesan said that after Nagaland was granted statehood on December 1, 1963, special provisions were inserted through the 13th Constitutional Amendment Act, Article 371-A, protecting among
