Kamjong villages oppose survey to fence border
Source: The Sangai Express / Mungchan Zimik

Ukhrul, October 24 2024: Border villages under Kamjong Block have strongly opposed the border survey in their areas to fence the Indo-Myanmar border in Kamjong district.

According to reliable sources, village headmen and local leaders blocked the border survey team yesterday at Ramphoi village when the team was returning to Imphal for some time and warned them not to conduct the border survey.

Different village associations in Kamjong have also expressed their opposition to the move of the Government to fence the Indo Myanmar border.

They conveyed that the border survey was conducted without their knowledge and the traditional boundary has been altered .

Kamjong villages oppose survey to fence border

NE Now reports : On Thursday, the official vehicles turned back from the said junction but they were allowed to inspect and assess the first-hand reports at the border areas of Phaikok and Thana villages in the same district.

The agitation erupted after the Naga People's Front (NPF), an alliance partner of the BJP-led Government in the State, along with Naga students' bodies objected to the proposal for fencing the Indo-Myanmar border in the Naga-dominated areas of Manipur.

Additionally, two Naga students' bodies � Southern Tangkhul Students' Union and Eastern Tangkhul Students' Union have jointly expressed strong opposition against continuing the border fencing works and also against scrapping the Free Movement Regime (FMR) .

Additionally, amid strong opposition from a section of the people in this border State, the Government started the ground survey and data collection work to prepare DPR for the fencing works (in Kamjong) .

Officials said that the survey from Border Pillar (BP) 6 to Border Pillar 110 (Chasad/Kamjong) covers a distance of 20.25 Km .

It started on October 18, 2024, as per a letter written by the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) to the 10 Sector Assam Rifles, Kamjong DC and Kamjong SP.

Officials said that over 30 km long border fencing has already been completed at the Manipur-Myanmar border.