New Delhi/Silchar Jul 12 : The Centre has extended the suspension of operations agreement with the Dima Halam Daogah (Nunisa) group for another six months till September 30 with the talks inching towards a final settlement.
An SoO between security forces and the DHD is in operation since January 1, 2003, and has been extended periodically. The tripartite talks on the demands of DHD are continuing and sources said a final shape to the settlement could be given by July 20.
A cabinet note has been sent to different ministries, which will give their opinion on the matter after which it would be taken up by the cabinet.
A joint monitoring group headed by JS (North East) in the ministry of home affairs has been constituted to review the implementation of agreed ground rules.
“(The) last tripartite meeting with the outfit was held on December 17, 2011, to finalise MoS (memorandum of settlement),” an official release today said.
The DHD led by Jewel Gorlosa is known to have agreed to a final settlement. However, the Centre is trying to get both outfits to agree to the same conditions of a memorandum of settlement in order to avoid later disagreements. “That is yet to be achieved,” said a source.
This morning, the chairman of the DHD (Nunisa), Dilip Nunisa, criticised the Assam government for its delay in signing the memorandum of settlement on the future of the Dimasas and their development as agreed in New Delhi in the second week of June.
Speaking over phone from New Delhi today, Nunisa told this correspondent this morning that the reasons for the delay in ratification of the accord were “quite inexplicable”.
He said Dispur had chosen to prolong its “enigma of silence” over a possible solution.
Dilip Nunisa and Dima “army chief ” Pranab Nunisa represented the DHD (Nunisa) in the tripartite talks. The Centre was represented by joint secretary (Northeast) Shambhu Singh and the state by home commissioner P. Sailesh besides Assam police’s additional director-general of police (special branch) Khagen Sarma.
The one obstacle in the ratification of the last round of the tripartite talks is integration of 94 villages of both Nagaon and Cachar districts now adjoining Dima Hasao area. Among these, 18 villages are now in Cachar for many years. The proposal of amalgamation of these villages with Dima Hasao has now become a bone of contention between the DHD (D) and the Assam government.
The Assam government’s former minister and chairman of the committee to rename North Cachar as Dima Hasao district, Dinesh Prasad Goala, last night said: “Not a single chatak of Cachar’s land on the eastern part of this district should be sliced for its eventual integration with Dima Hasao.”
Yesterday, several people who included, among others, the tea community, staged a dharna in front of the office of the Cachar deputy commissioner here in protest against the proposal of integration of Cachar villages with Dima Hasao as demanded by the DHD (Nunisa).
The demonstrators held aloft the placards stating not a single inch of Cachar’s land should be parted with.
The DHD (Nunisa) with over 850 cadres living since 2003 in four camps in Dima Hasao district has been demanding, apart from the integration of the Dimasa-inhabited areas in Cachar and Nagaon, infusion of Rs 250 crore in the next five years for the district’s all-round social and economic development and recruitment of DHD (Nunisa) cadres in security forces
Nunisa also flayed the NSCN (I-M) for its continuing ingress into the Dima Hasao district from adjoining Nagaland.
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