While fixing the annual plan size for 2012-13 in a meeting between Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia in New Delhi yesterday, the panel allotted Rs 300 crore as special economic package for infrastructure development in eastern Nagaland.
"The ENPO has so far categorically rejected all the offers made by the state and central governments such as autonomous council, regional council and economic package and unanimously resolved to stand firm on its demand for separate statehood, Frontier Nagaland," the ENPO said in a statement.
ENPO president P Pongom and general secretary N T Thamlong Phom in a joint statement said that the same stand was taken in a meeting of all tribal organisations at Tuensang on June 12.
ENPO comprises six Naga tribes inhabiting in the four districts of Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire and Longleng.