Dimapur, March 12 -- Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton, who is also minister in charge of Border Affairs, today told the Nagaland Assembly that the state government is examining the matter of setting up nine new police outposts in border villages along Assam-Nagaland border.
Responding to a starred question by MLA Achumbemo Kikon on the concluding day of the eighth session of the 14th Nagaland Assembly in Kohima, Patton said Nagaland had withdrawn all police outposts from the border areas following the 1972 Interim Agreement, whereas Assam has since established 63 permanent police outposts along the Assam-Nagaland border.
Kikon also raised the issue of the current status of the Tchunjanphen and Lio-Longchym/Longayim police outposts on the bo...