Meluri sub-division notified as Nagaland’s seventeenth district

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Nov 04, 2024 04:43 PM IST

Meluri, dominated by the Pochury Naga tribe and shares worldwide border with Myanmar, has grow to be the fifth district to be created by the Nagaland authorities within the final three years

The Nagaland authorities has upgraded Meluri sub-division beneath Phek district to a full-fledged district with rapid impact, making it the seventeenth district of the northeastern state.

Nagaland Governor La Ganesan in a notification stated the jurisdiction of the brand new district shall comprise the prevailing sub-division.

Governor La Ganesan in a notification stated the jurisdiction of the brand new district shall comprise the prevailing sub-division.

Meluri is dominated by the Pochury Naga tribe and shares worldwide border with Myanmar.

It has grow to be the fifth district to be created by the state authorities within the final three years.

In 2021, the chief minister Neiphiu Rio-led Individuals’s Democratic Alliance authorities had created the Tseminyu district by bifurcation of Kohima district, Chümoukedima and Niuland districts by bifurcating Dimapur district, and later in 2022 created Shamator district carving it out of the japanese district of Tuensang.