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The return of his body to his hometown of Silchar led to a wave of communal violence and destruction of Mizo property on 7 June 1979. The MNF retaliated and the Assam government sealed the border between Mizoram and Cachar as a result. [39] The Quit Mizoram movement saw an increase of violence in MNF participants.
In 2013, MHIP was behind several bills proposed in the Mizoram Legislative Assembly, such as the Mizo Marriage Bill, the Mizo Inheritance Bill, and the Mizo Divorce Bill. [1] The 2014 Mizo Marriage Divorce and Inheritance of Property Act abolished the customary practice in which a wife was left with nothing after a divorce and established that ...
Mizoram [a] is a landlocked state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar to the east and south, with domestic borders with the Indian states of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura. [5]
The Union Territory of Mizoram, spanning from 1972 to 1987, was formed as a response to the Mizo people's demand for greater autonomy. [3] During this time period, reforms in administration and preservation of Mizo culture started.
When Mizoram was a district under Assam it operated under a system of subdivisions. The district was halved into Aizawl and Lunglei. Districts of Union Territory of Mizoram before the North-East Reorganization Act. Before the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 Lunglei was also composed of a Pawi-Lakher Subdivision based on councils.
The scheme called Mizoram Intodelhna Project (MIP) was designed as financial gratis to farmers who were pursuing alternative agriculture systems. [27] In 2009, PRISM filed a case to the Anti-Corruption Bureau that Zoramthanga, H. Rammawi, then Agriculture Minister, and Lalhuapzauva, Adviser to Chief Minister, had given on loan basis large sums ...
The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister, short-form HM) is the head of Home Department [1] of the Government of Mizoram.One of the senior-most officers in the Cabinet of Mizoram, the chief responsibility of the home minister is the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy.
The Mizo National Front (abbr. MNF) is a regional political party in Mizoram, India.MNF emerged from the Mizo National Famine Front, which was formed by Pu Laldenga to protest against the inaction of the Government of India towards the famine situation in the Mizo areas of the Assam state in 1959.