Jul 30, 2006 :: Peace dividends in Mizoram

The Week magazine in its July 30 issue carries a report on twenty years of uninterrupted peace since 1986 when the Mizo Accord was signed. For twenty years before that, there had been an armed rebellion.

How fares the state now? The report says rising levels of education and economic development have been reinforcing each other. Mizoram today is 90.27% literate, second only to Kerala’s 90.91%. Chief Minister Lalthangliana says, “We are trying to beat Kerala by 2006 end”.