Border Boundary pillars along Assam-Arunachal uprooted in Lakhimpur

According to one Assam Forest personnel, people from Arunachal Pradesh side are uprooting concrete pillars posted by Lakhimpur forest department for plantations under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) scheme on Saturday. About four hundred pillars were reportedly pulled out in the incident.

This was preceded by the visit of the Circle Officer of Kimin, Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday who had asked the Lakhimpur Forest personnel to stop the CAMPA work there.