Amit Shah would inaugurate Assam Rifles complex

Aizawl, 28 Feb (Zoram News): Union Home Minister Amit Shah would visit Mizoram on March 17 to inaugurate Assam Rifles complex at Zokhawsang and Laldenga Centre in Aizawl.

Pu Zoramthanga told reporters that the Union Minister would inaugurate the Assam Rifles complex at Zokhawsang near Aizawl. He would also inaugurate the Laldenga Centre set up in Aizawl in memory of former state chief minister and Mizo National Front (MNF) founder Laldenga.

Relocation of Assam Rifles base from the heart of Aizawl to the designated camp at Zokhawsang, about 15 km on the eastern outskirts of the state capital, was one of the top agendas of Zoramthanga led MNF government in the last assembly polls held in November 2018.

In February 2019, the Union Home Ministry had directed the Assam Rifles to shift its battalion headquarters to Zokhawsang by May 31 that year.

The country’s oldest paramilitary force has two Assam Rifles bases in Zodin and Khatla in the heart of the city. The one at Zodin is being shifted to Zokhawsang.

During a meeting with Amit Shah in November last year, Zoramthanga had informed the Union home minister that the delay in the relocation of the Assam Rifles camp was delaying infrastructural projects in the state capital.