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ARUNACHAL PRADESH, MIZORAM STATEHOOD DAYS
PM Modi greets people of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram on Statehood Days.
Important points:
- Both states attained statehood on 20 February 1987.
- The Mizo hills area became the Lushai Hills district within Assam at the time of independence. Further, in 1954 it was renamed the Mizo Hills District of Assam.
- Mizoram was given UT status in 1972.
- The Union Territory of Mizoram was conferred the status of a full state after the signing of a memorandum of settlement (Mizoram Peace Accord) between the Central government and the Mizo National Front, ending a two-decade-old Insurgency.
SOURCE:PIB