Aizawl: The state’s largest students’ body Mizo Zirlai Pawl on Wednesday claimed that the Assam Government had constructed an upper primary school along the inter-state border inside Mizoram’s territory.
MZP sources said acting on an information, it had sent a team which went to the place on September 16 and found that a school under Cachar (Assam) district SSA Mission had been set up near B Tlangnuam village inside Mizoram.
”The school building has been constructed at a cost of Rs 7,00,000. At present, it has 80 Bengali-speaking children and two regular teachers and some voluntary teachers,” an MZP communiqué revealed.
The MZP alleged that another school looked after by Cachar district SSA had been constructed at Saihapui village inside Mizoram near Assam border.
”As Mizoram and Assam have border dispute, the construction of a school by the Assam Government inside what is understood to be Mizoram territory is a very serious issue which requires an intervention of the Central Government,” MZP president V L Krosshnehzova said.
The MZP also demanded the Government of Mizoram to take immediate steps in this direction. When contacted, a joint director of the school education department in Aizawl said his office was not aware of any such schools constructed by the Assam Government inside Mizoram. (UNI)