One Ss pvt Gideon Daime (18) Army No 42301/10(IM) S/O Lt Namra Daime of Village Longmang apprehended by 9 Madras Mahur camp and Mahur police on November 13. Recovered- 4x AK Rds. Daime joined NSCN (IM) in March 2010, trained in Tamei camp, Tamenglong. Operated in entire Zeliangrong region since then, it is learnt.
Longchiui, a village only 3 Km away from the Umrangso, the only industrial township of Dima Hasao is yet to see the light of development. The village was established by the affected people of Kopili Hydro Electric Project as their ancestral village Sikilangso was taken by the NEEPCO way back in 1976. They were of course compensated but with a meager amount and with some long promises of development and other facilities.
The village is having 38 houses (mostly pile house) and 200 plus population. The villagers solely dependent on jhum cultivation, which provide them rice for only two months in a year. Earlier, they were having vast areas of wetland but after the establishment of NEEPCO...
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