Mizoram celebrates Statehood Day

AIZAWL-  Mizoram on Tuesday celebrated Statehood Day by holding a variety of colourful cultural programmes and other functions.

President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, BJP President J.P. Nadda and several Union ministers and Chief Ministers of the neighbouring northeastern states greeted the people of the two states on the occasion.

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Addressing the Statehood Day function, the Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati congratulated the people of Mizoram for maintaining the reputation of being one of the most peaceful states in India.

Governor said that “the state was conferred the status of a full state after the signing of a memorandum of settlement, also known as the ‘Mizoram Peace Accord’, between the Central government and the Mizo National Front (MNF) on June 30, 1986”.

The Peace Accord was a culmination of two decades of insurgency while the formalisation of Mizoram state took place on February 20, 1987, the Governor said adding that it was noteworthy that while the Government of India had granted statehood as a condition of the Peace Accord, Mizoram has also kept its end of the bargain and maintained peace for 37 years.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, as part of the commemoration of Mizoram Statehood Day, laid a wreath and paid tributes to the fallen martyrs at the Assam Rifles War Memorial in Aizawl.

Addressing the function, the Chief Minister underlined how Mizoram, as a state, was already lagging behind other states by 25 years on the day of its creation.

He said that during these 25 years, Mizoram missed out on all the progress and developments that came with the five consecutive five-year plans.

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Since the state was a very late starter, the Chief Minister stressed that the state needed to walk faster and, and most importantly, work harder than others to catch up.

He also briefly hinted how his government will take all the necessary steps to promote growth and progress even if it takes some hard decisions.

Mizoram at a glance.

Mizoram spans over  an area of approximately 21,087 square kilometres, bordering the Indian states of Assam, Manipur and Tripura in the north and shares international boundaries with Myanmar in the east and Bangladesh in the West. According to the 2011 Census, the population of Mizoram is 1,091,014. However, various estimates project the current population of Mizoram at around 13 lakh. The state has one seat each in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. It has the state legislative assembly size of 40 seats. Within Mizoram, there are 3 AutonomousDistrict Councils. At present, Mizoram is divided into 11 districts with 24 Subdivisions and 28 RD blocks.