Aizawl: Chief Minister of Mizoram Zoramthanga said on Tuesday, February 28, that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate a new complex of Assam Rifles in Mizoram on March 17. 

The Chief Minister said,  Amit Shah will officially open the AR complex in Zokhawsang, near to Aizawl. During last assembly elections, which were held in November 2018, the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) had the relocation of the Assam Rifles camp from the centre of Aizawl to Zokhawsang, about 15 km away from the city, as one of its main priorities.

The Assam Rifles were ordered by the Union Home Ministry in February 2019 to move their battalion headquarters to Zokhawsang by May 31 of that year. Two Assam Rifles bases are located in the centre of the city, in Zodin and Khatla, by the oldest paramilitary organisation in the nation. One is being moved from Zodin to Zokhawsang.

In November of last year, Zoramthanga met with Amit Shah and informed him that the Assam Rifles camp's ongoing transfer was causing delays in the state capital's infrastructure projects.

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