Mizoram
Mizoram State India:
Area : 21,081 sq km
Population: 8,91,058;growth rate (19911-2001): 29.18%
Density per sq km: 42
Sex ratio (females per 1,000 males) 938
Literacy rate: 88.49% (males: 90.60%; females: 86.13%)
Capital: Aizawl
No. of Districts: 8
Principal Languages: Mizo and English
Important Cities, Towns and Religious/Tourist Places:
Aizawl hilly city (religious and cultural centre of Mizo), Champhai (beautiful resort on the Myanmar border), Chhimtuipui, Lunglei, Saiha, Situal Forest around), Wantawng Fall (near hill station of Thenzawl).
Legislature: Unicameral
Judicature: Mizoram comes under the jurisdiction of Guwahati High Court and has a Bench at Aizawl.
Location: One of the eastern-most States, Mizoram lies between Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma). Tripura, Assam and Manipur border is on the north.
History: The Lushai Hills, sandwiched between Burma in the cast and south and Bangladesh in the west, was christened Mizoram when it became a Union Territory in 1972. By a Constitutional Amendment in 1986, the Union Government decided to confer full Statehood on Mizoram, which became the 23rd State of the Indian Union with effect from February 20, 11987.
Economy:
Agriculture is the mainstay for about 60 percent of the population of Mizoram. Only 5 percent of the total area is under cultivation. About 7 percent of the total cultivated area is under irrigation. Maize and paddy are cultivated in the h9ill slopes.
Pulses, sugarcanes, chillies, ginger, tobacco, vegetables, turmeric potato, banana and pineapple are the other crops grown in the State. Forests account for nearly 21 percent of the area.
Mizoram has no major industry. The cottage industries comprise of handloom and handicrafts. In the small scale sector are the rice milling, oil and flour milling, mechanised bamboo workshops, saw milling, brick making and furniture workshops.
Mizoram State India
