India, March 3 -- Substantial progress has been made on the creation of a Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority (FNTA) for six eastern districts of Nagaland and state government is hopeful that any remaining concerns of the Eastern Nagaland People's Organisation (ENPO) will be addressed, governor La Ganesan told the Nagaland assembly on Monday.

Ganesan said the state government has submitted its comments on the draft of the memorandum of settlement in connection with the plan to create the new authority to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in November 2024. Subsequently, two rounds of tripartite discussions have been held between the Centre, the state government and ENPO in New Delhi and Nagaland and considerable progress has been mad...