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A big oil driven economic boom awaits Mizoram. Surveys have indicated that the state could have a reserve of 170 million tonnes of oil and gas. Oil exploration firms from France, Cypress and Ukraine await licenses to drill.

The state is next only to Kerala in literacy and it’s population is thinner. Prosperity can vault the state to the top of human development rankings.   Story