Nagaland concerned over missing border documents

KOHIMA: The Nagaland Government on Thursday asserted that whatever it would claim for redrawing the inter-state boundary would be "valid and legal" in the event documents and maps pertaining to the Assam-Nagaland border areas remained untraced.
    
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio told the state assembly that it was a serious matter if the original documents and maps pertaining to Assam-Nagaland border areas were missing, "since Nagaland has to make claims before the local boundary commission for re-drawing of boundaries on the basis of those documents."
    
"We have insisted that the Union Home Ministry as well as Survey of India should retrieve those documents/maps from archives in Kolkata, London or elsewhere and make available to the commission," Rio said.
    
"If the documents remain untraceable, whatever claims to re-draw inter-state boundaries must be valid and legal."
    
During the zero-hour of the brief monsoon session, CLP leader Chingwang Konyak sought the government's clarification on the original documents earlier submitted by Nagaland to the union home ministry going missing and termed it as "a serious matter".
    
The chief minister said the government has asked the boundary commission and the home ministry to collect the original documents and return them to Nagaland.