Tzürangkong Senso Senden forbids oil exploration in ancestral Ao land bordering Assam

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BY | Saturday, 1 February, 2025

The Tzürangkong Senso Senden has forbidden exploration, drilling and extraction of oil from the Tsurangkong Range without the knowledge, consent and valid agreement with the ancestral traditional land owners of the Ao Naga Community.

In a statement, the Organisation’s President Moa Kichu and Secretary Chuba Pongen asserted that the Tsurangkong Range, which is situated in the Nagaland and Assam border, is inhabited by the Ao Naga Community and that the Range is the ancestral traditional land belonging to the Community.

It claimed that the Government of Assam abetted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change was trying to allot their traditional ancestral land to Vedanta Limited for exploration and drilling of oil without the landowners’ knowledge and consent.

The Tzürangkong Senso Senden also mentioned that on 15th November 2024, the Border Magistrate, District Forest Officer of Assam, officials from the Ministry and Vedanta Limited had visited the Range for inspection without their knowledge and consent for the purpose of exploration and drilling of oil. However, they were turned away by the traditional land owners.

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