Context: Manipur’s Zomi ethnic group has renewed its demand for a self-administered zone on the lines of the Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam.
The Zomi Council, representing nine Zomi tribes, it banking for the creation of Zoland Territorial Council (ZTC) under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
About zomi:
The word Zo is used to describe an ethnic group, also known as the Mizo, the Kuki, the Zomi, the Chin and a number of other names based on geographic distribution, are a large group of related Tibeto-Burman peoples spread throughout the northeastern states of India, northwestern Myanmar (Burma) and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
In northeastern India, they are present in: Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam.