In the second of the two-part series, we investigate how oil exploration may face issues due to the decades-old boundary dispute between Assam and Nagaland. Read part one here.
The National Board of Wildlife’s approval for Vedanta’s oil exploration project on the Eco Sensitive Zone of Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary (HGWLS) has sparked a border row between Nagaland and Assam yet again. With plans to conduct exploratory drilling in Dissoi Valley getting a nod from the Centre, Naga groups have approached the Home Ministry citing a decades-old boundary dispute between Assam and Nagaland.
